Francis BoscoeOne epidemiologist’s take on coronavirusThis week I’ve been having a lot of private conversations with concerned friends, family, colleagues, and students about coronavirus…Mar 13, 2020Mar 13, 2020
Francis BoscoeVisualizing Residential Histories in RI am working on a project that involves piecing together residential histories to better explain chronic disease risk. Traditionally, we…Feb 20, 2020Feb 20, 2020
Francis BoscoeWhat to do with my scientific findings?Why I’m resolved against pay-to-publishJan 3, 2020Jan 3, 2020
Francis BoscoeinThe StartupTeaching biostatistics to the math phobicI just finished teaching Introduction to Biostatistics online to master’s students in public health. Most of them were already employed in…Dec 16, 20192Dec 16, 20192
Francis BoscoeThe R package TidycensusA few months ago I made a presentation to the Portland (Maine) useR group. It made use of a lot of census data, and I mentioned how…Dec 10, 2019Dec 10, 2019
Francis BoscoeState Socioeconomic Profiles (Using R)In 2018 Amy Kind and her research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published a web site called Neighborhood Atlas. It features…May 10, 2019May 10, 2019
Francis BoscoeBridging a path to the Steel CityAn organization I belong to hosted its annual conference in Pittsburgh last summer, and a few months before that they announced that the…Jan 26, 2019Jan 26, 2019
Francis BoscoeField Notes from my Neighborhood (2 of 3)One of my neighbors constructed one of those Little Free Libraries. You have probably seen them — perched at the fronts of lawn, they…Nov 7, 2018Nov 7, 2018