Co-Editor-in-Chief of DFEB
I took over for Dr. Sarah Jackson as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the DCEG Fellows Editorial Board (DFEB). I join Dr. Maeve Bailey-Whyte in this role. DFEB is a fellow-led group that offers fellows a free scientific document-reviewing service and the opportunity to build scientific editing and review skills of their own.
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology 2020
I presented my abstract entitled “Geographic variation in the oral microbiome of NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study Participants” at the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology held virtually due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Creating a hexsticker for the {sparrpowR} package
I present code to create the hexsticker for the sparrpowR package using the hexSticker and spatstat packages. The sparrpowR calculated the statistical power for a spatial relative risk function from the sparr package.
New CRAN Package {sparrpowR}
My first R package is in the Comprehensive R Archive Network named sparrpowR. It provides a statistical power calculation for the spatial relative risk function via the sparr package. See the public Github repository for more details.
Animating Spatio-Temporal COVID-19 Data
I present an update to my previous posts #1 and #2. This update can also be found on a public GitHub repository.
Starting May 17, 2020 the DC Mayoral Office began releasing testing information by neighborhood on their coronavirus data portal.
A Place for Spatial Analysis in the Cancer Control Continuum
I gave an invited talk at the National Cancer Institute entitled “A place for spatial analysis in the Cancer Control Continuum.” The talk was an overview of my work in progress over the past year in the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program.
DCEG Informatics Tool Challenge Award
I received an Informatics Tool Challenge Award from the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics for a project entitled “sparrpowR: A flexible R package and webtool to estimate statistical power of a spatial cluster detection technique.
Cluster Detection in PCoA Space using Kernel Density Estimation
I present code to identify relative spatial clustering in multidimensional scaling / principal coordinate analysis (MDS/PCoA) space. I use a spatial relative risk function risk from the sparr package.
Test Positivity Rate of Cumulative SARS-CoV-2 Cases in the District of Columbia
I present an update to my previous post. Starting May 17, 2020 the DC Mayoral Office began releasing testing information by neighborhood on their coronavirus data portal.
Cumulative SARS-CoV-2 Cases in the District of Columbia by Health Planning Neighborhoods
After moving to DC last year, PoPville has been a personal favorite for local scoop. A post on May 11, 2020 captured my attention. Molly Tolzmann zmotoly adjusted the daily coronavirus data publicly released by the DC Mayoral Office at the DC health planning neighborhood level by the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) census tract data and demographic data from Open Data DC.
