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	Kacy Chrestman • Dec 20, 2022 at 4:40 PM Action Required! — Good morning everyone, Just a reminder that the final evaluation survey is due by tomorrow, December 21. Right now we are only hovering around 50% completion, which is not a high enough number for a thorough evaluation of the program. All of you are data driven people, so please help us get the ...
	Jeremy Kuo • Dec 16, 2022 at 9:21 PM Git Repo Services — Hi all, First off, congratulations to all the teams on a job well done this year! Here in Michigan, after our final presentation we were able to have additional presentations and follow-up internally and are looking ahead at what's next for our team and agency. We are revisiting the idea of usi...	2
	Kacy Chrestman • Dec 07, 2022 at 3:56 PM Reimbursements — Good morning all! If you have a reimbursement that you need to send, please send it to me by Friday at lunch so that I can process and get it to our accounting department. With the holidays, 12/15 is our last check run for this year, so anything sent in after Friday would not be processed until...	2
	Maria Moskwa • Nov 30, 2022 at 3:49 PM Code sharing — Hi All, I had a thought - wouldn't it be useful to have a place to share coding strategies for projects? I was specifically thinking that it would be nice to have code to clean addresses, a commonly asked for task for linking projects that we do. I was thinking that when I have left positions t...	2
	Kacy Chrestman • Nov 30, 2022 at 3:45 PM Data Analytics Showcase — Good morning everyone! Next week begins our final presentations! I hope you all are excited and ready to share, as we are excited to hear about your accomplishments! Announcement: If you would like to share your screen with your slides during the presentation, that is fine. If you would rather ...
	Kacy Chrestman • Nov 16, 2022 at 12:58 PM Announcements — Hi everyone, I have a couple of things to share with you that you might be interested in participating in through CSTE. 1. OMB has launched public listening sessions on Federal Race and Ethnicity Standards Revision. An Interagency Technical Working Group is hosting these sessions. The session(...
	Kacy Chrestman • Nov 02, 2022 at 1:12 PM Coursera — Hi Everyone! I had a conversation last week with a team, and they brought up a question that was different from one I had gotten before, so I wanted to share here because others have asked similar questions. They asked if they could go ahead and get a Coursera subscription now, instead of exten...
	Kacy Chrestman • Oct 19, 2022 at 1:30 PM Final Presentation Reminders — Good morning all! I wanted to remind everyone about the Bookings page for our final presentations. I have about 9 teams who have not signed up for a timeslot yet. Please do so by the end of next week, October 28. After we have everyone signed up, I will share the calendar invites and you will b...	1
	Kacy Chrestman • Oct 12, 2022 at 2:54 PM Final Presentation Times/Dates — Good morning! For our final presentations, we will have 3 sessions in December that are 90 minutes each. Each team will sign up for a specific 10-minute time slot and present during that time. I will send out the calendar invites once each team has signed up for their time slot and everything i...	5
	Kacy Chrestman • Sep 30, 2022 at 3:14 PM CSTE LEAD — Happy Friday all! I wanted to share another CSTE opportunity with you! “Applications are currently open for the third cohort of our leadership training program for mid-career epidemiologists: CSTE LEAD: Leading Epidemiologists, Advancing Data. Preview the application before submitting the appli...	1
	Kacy Chrestman • Sep 28, 2022 at 1:42 PM Webinar offering — We have teams working on projects that utilize geographical information. The Chicago Department of Health utilized their skills to build a health atlas. They are offering a webinar on October 13th to share the things they learned as well as their successes. This could be an excellent way to learn...
	Kacy Chrestman • Sep 26, 2022 at 3:06 PM Final Presentations — [Final Presentation Requirements.pdf]Hi everyone, I'm sorry my post is delayed by a few days. Last week was CSTE week, and all of us were in the office together having meetings and team-building. I know there have been questions about final presentations, and so I wanted to go ahead and begin t...	7
	💡 Open Discussion Threads by Anne Zehner • Sep 22, 2022 at 5:40 PM 💡 September Workshop Follow-Up — Hi Everyone, We wanted to get a discussion thread going related to the follow-up from yesterday's workshop. If you were able to join and made a plan to reach out to at least one other person you met from another jurisdiction on the call, post a follow up here when you've had that conversation t...	1
	Kacy Chrestman • Sep 14, 2022 at 3:03 PM Data Modernization Toolkit — Hi everyone, Each agency has its own plan for data modernization, but sometimes having a guiding document or plan can be very helpful. I wanted to share this toolkit with you so that if your agency/department doesn't have a plan, or is still building their data modernization plan, you could shar...
	Anne Zehner • Aug 17, 2022 at 8:02 PM Slides from Today's Presentation — Hi All, Posting the slides from today's presentation on troubleshooting code. Let me know if anyone has questions. Anne[2022-08-17_cste-workshop_troubleshooting-final.pptx]
	💡 Open Discussion Threads by Kacy Chrestman • Aug 17, 2022 at 3:07 PM 💡 Change Management — You are all managing multiple projects, and change management is a large part of managing those projects. Obstacles such as data siloes and not having access to data can lengthen project time, and even completely derail some projects. Being an advocate for change and pushing your agency for speci...
	💡 Open Discussion Threads by Kacy Chrestman • Aug 10, 2022 at 1:22 PM 💡 What would you like to see for the rest of the program? — This week I would like to ask you about what you would like to discuss or learn the rest of the program year. Can you give us 3 things that you would like to learn or would be helpful to you for the rest of this year? Are you struggling with something and want to connect to another team? Would y...
	Anne Zehner • Aug 05, 2022 at 6:55 PM Resource for adding custom shape files to Tableau — One more post for the day: One of my teams asked about creating a custom geography in Tableau. Tableau understands some standard geographies natively, but if you wanted to, for example, group counties into something like a geography that really only exists for your agency (like a health plannin...
	Anne Zehner • Aug 05, 2022 at 6:50 PM Mentoring/Mentorship Opportunity — Hello there, Happy Friday! I wanted to make sure that everyone knew that CSTE has a mentorship program that they are accepting applications for for the 2022/2023 class. If you are a mid-career epi/public health person, this is a great way to get more experience mentoring. If you are early career...
	Kacy Chrestman • Aug 03, 2022 at 1:30 PM Resilience — Hello everyone, Today I wanted to give you information on a free course that is meant to be a resource for individuals that are looking to understand the triggers of personal, team-wide, organizational, and community stress. The course is put together by the Northwest Center for Public Health Pr...
	Kacy Chrestman • Jul 27, 2022 at 12:58 PM Webinar series — Good morning all! Today I want to share with you about an upcoming opportunity. In partnership with the Compassion Institute and funded by the CSTE Foundation, CSTE is pleased to share a four-part webinar series* with all members beginning in August. The first webinar will include topics for b...
	Kacy Chrestman • Jul 20, 2022 at 2:47 PM Accomplishments — Today I want to give everyone a place to share what they've accomplished. Is there a part of your project that has gone really well? Do you have a screenshot you want to share with other teams? Is there a cool tip/trick you think could help others on their project? Share it here- success can be h...
	Kacy Chrestman • Jul 13, 2022 at 2:42 PM Housekeeping — Hi Everyone, No official post today, but I do have a couple of housekeeping items for your awareness. 1. For those of you who are using DSTT funds for Annual Conference this year, please make sure that you have sent that to me by July 22nd to be processed. If you aren't sure about something, pl...	6
	Rishi Kowalski • Jul 12, 2022 at 6:51 PM Coursera Reccomendations — Hi all, Thinking on to the next coursera course I'd like to take - were there any that people found particularly useful or instructive? Thanks, Rishi	2
	Kacy Chrestman • Jul 07, 2022 at 2:28 PM AJPH Article — In the May edition of AJPH, there was an article about the future of data dashboards that I thought might be of interest to many of you. It gives recommendations as well as talking about the usage and future trajectory of dashboards. For those of you working on dashboards, share how things are g...
	Kacy Chrestman • Jun 29, 2022 at 6:34 PM Free Training Opportunity — Hi everyone, For those of you that weren't at conference last week, we had a great turnout, and lots of interesting presentations! I attended a roundtable held by our sponsor Ruvos on how to leverage data science to advance your department's analyses. They let us know that they will be holding 3 ...
	💡 Open Discussion Threads by Anne Zehner • Jun 15, 2022 at 7:37 PM 💡 Data Visualization Chat — Hi Everyone! The data viz slides from the June workshop are up now. Let's get a chat going about your favorite data viz resources and tools, charts you hate and charts you love, challenges you have faced with data viz in public health, and how you approach presenting data in a visual form to your...
	Kacy Chrestman • Jun 08, 2022 at 1:03 PM Peer Review opportunity — Are you interested in gaining peer-review experience? The Journal for Public Health Management and Practice is looking for epidemiology reviewers to assist in the peer-review process. This is a great opportunity to bolster your skills and contribute to the field of epidemiology. If interest...
	Kacy Chrestman • Jun 01, 2022 at 1:17 PM Annual Conference — Is anyone in the group presenting at conference this month? If so, share what day/time so others can support you by attending.	5
	💡 Open Discussion Threads by Bernadette Aylward • May 26, 2022 at 7:36 PM 💡 Recommendations for training — Use this thread to share how you have used or are planning to use your training stipend. Ask for or offer a recommendation here. Is there a training, course, or conference you would recommend to a fellow learner? Is there a topic you want to learn more about and are looking for the right opportu...
	W Logan Downing • May 19, 2022 at 6:23 PM Zero Trust Data Modeling — Hi folks, A while back I had come across the term "Zero Trust Data Modeling", the term is indicative of handling incoming data streams as if there are no guarantees on the validity or quality of that data. Many data quality issues can be traced to not catching problems in the data early enough. ...	2
	Jason Geslois • May 18, 2022 at 9:49 PM Needle Stick / Sharp's Injuries — Does anyone here that works in any of the states that requires health care facilities to report needle sticks / sharp's injuries? Our state doesn't require it, but I was trying to look into that to get more details within our syndromic surveillance for another project, but wanted to see if anyone...
	Josh Levy • May 06, 2022 at 8:52 PM Git repos from cloud providers — If your organization has access to AWS, Azure or Google cloud, all of these providers have git repo services. Azure repos: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/repos/ AWS CodeCommit: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/ Google Cloud Source Repositories: https://cloud.google.com/source...	1
	Jeremy Kuo • May 05, 2022 at 1:43 PM Preferred methods for Geocoding addresses? — Hi all! Jeremy from Michigan DHHS! Just putting out some feelers- I'm hoping to put together a map of providers in Tableau using a list given to me with all their addresses. Currently, I don't believe Tableau supports mapping using only addresses, so I've been looking into ways to obtain geocode...	9
	Kacy Chrestman • May 04, 2022 at 8:33 PM Annual Conference — Good afternoon, This is a friendly reminder that the early bird registration deadline for the 2022 CSTE Annual Conference is tomorrow , May 5th! Please see the website for information on registration. I look forward to seeing you there! Best regards,
	Kacy Chrestman • May 04, 2022 at 12:59 PM Focus Group Sign-up by May 13th — Dear DSTT participants, We are excited to invite you to give feedback about your experiences with the DSTT thus far. As you may know, the CSTE has contracted with two external evaluators (David Napp and Jane Conklin). They will be conducting virtual focus groups with DSTT teams in early to mid-Ju...	6
	Kacy Chrestman • Jun 15, 2022 at 2:45 PM Dashboards — Per this article, dashboards are now a huge part of the job, and so many of our teams are building dashboards. What successes have you had lately? What do you need help with? Post your successes and struggles and then chime in to help others with their struggles!
	Josh Levy • Apr 22, 2022 at 9:25 PM What's the most interesting thing you learned today? — I learned how to remove the age effects from a series of boxplots using the residuals from a linear regression. I adapted code from: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/model-building.html What about you?
	Anne Zehner • Apr 22, 2022 at 7:55 PM Tableau tips blog recommendation — Ryan Sleeper maintains a blog at Playfair Data that continually posts great content about building Tableau vizzes: https://playfairdata.com/blog/. Subscribe to have it sent to your inbox too. Happy Friday! Have a great weekend!
	Anne Zehner • Apr 21, 2022 at 12:08 AM Free resource on standardizing file names — WHY ON EARTH WOULD I WANT TO DO THAT? Because it will make your life easier, streamline the management of code and documents and help you find your own files six months down the road when you NEED that one piece of code but can't remember which version of the file was the FINAL FINAL FINAL versio...	2
	Kristin Bergman • Apr 18, 2022 at 5:31 PM April Workshop Info — Hello! We hope you'll join us for the April workshop. Details on the date and time, agenda and relevant discussion questions are below. Please think about the discussion prompts before the workshop. Workshop slides, recordings and follow-up resources will be posted in the April 2022 Monthly Works...
	Kristin Bergman • Apr 06, 2022 at 4:31 PM Data Science as a discipline & ASA Symposium — The American Statistical Association released the program for their fifth annual symposium on data science and statistics. The symposium is in Pittsburgh, June 7-10. The program is intriguing - check it out: https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/sdss/2022/PDFs/SDSS2022_Program.pdf What constitutes dat...
	Kacy Chrestman • Apr 06, 2022 at 1:17 PM Annual Conference — CSTE's Annual Conference is coming up, June 19-23! Registration for the hybrid event is now open, and we would love to hear everyone's plans. Is your team planning to attend in-person? Virtual? What workshops are you planning to attend?	2
	💡 Open Discussion Threads by Anne Zehner • Apr 04, 2022 at 7:51 PM 💡 RWeekly Blog — For any users of R, or folks looking to gain more experience in R, the RWeekly blog is a great resource for learning about new packages, updated functionality and other emerging R coding practices and issues. You can sign up to have the weekly digest emailed to you as well: https://rweekly.org/	1
	💡 Open Discussion Threads by Anne Zehner • Mar 28, 2022 at 3:10 PM 💡 March Workshop Follow-Up — Hi Everyone! Thanks for the great attendance and engagement in the March Workshop last Thursday. We wanted to get a discussion going about project management to keep the momentum from last week's session as you consider planning out this year's project. Please drop a line here and let the gro...	1
	💡 Open Discussion Threads by Kacy Chrestman • Mar 09, 2022 at 2:51 PM 💡 LinkedIn — As you are all communicating and connecting with other teams and your coaches, we want to make sure that you have avenues now and in the future to continue collaborating and discussing projects with one another. In the spirit of that, we'd like to have you all share your LinkedIn profiles in this...
	Kacy Chrestman • Feb 11, 2022 at 3:23 PM Networking — In yesterday's networking session, you had the chance to meet and discuss different topics related to your projects. In this discussion post, please let us know what you learned, ask someone a question (make sure to tag them), or ask for more information or clarification on something someone said...	4
	💡 Open Discussion Threads by Bernadette Aylward • Jan 18, 2022 at 10:31 PM 💡 Introductions — We won't have time to do introductions with everyone during orientation, so please use this thread to introduce yourself! Please a little about your background (education, experience, skill sets), your role at the agency, and the focus of your project. What would you like to gain from DSTT? Fe...	104
	💡 Open Discussion Threads by Bernadette Aylward • Jan 14, 2022 at 4:18 PM 💡 What do you hope to learn this year? — Use this thread to discuss your learning priorities-is there a data science topic you are really excited about? What do you need to learn for your project? What Coursera courses caught your eye? Did you have any key takeaways from discussing with your team? Post here after you have taken the ba...