Next to the tracks

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Yesterday I met with Indicators, ground through several of the broken unit tests for issue dates, approved E’s pull request for the CDC hospitalization indicator and pulled him into the issue dates task as well, and in the cracks while Docker images were rebuilding wrote some of the specs I said we’d provide for the hackathon. It’s going to be tight and there’s a lot to do both for the release on Tuesday and the hackathon next Friday. P volunteered to help, so I gave him a spec for one of the tasks I’ve been putting off that generates synthetic date-time entries on approximately the pattern we see in the real survey data. At the end of the day I was seized by some spirit of user-oriented design and rewrote the near-term section of the strategic planning document for the map to serve what I think has been the primary source of frustration in the choice of audience discussion; the map is being used heavily by lab members to do our own signal debugging and ongoing quality checks. The near-term user is us, and has to address our needs without sacrificing our ability to bend it toward usefulness for public health officials in the future.

Dinner, crossword, submitted a farmers market order, DS9, snack, sleep. Dreamt of disused trains, packing, unpacking, fabric shopping, rowan trees, plant-based dyes, pumpkin competitions, busy parking lots.