Quick look at NIH K-award funding

MV Kiang — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 23:08:36 +0000

Motivated by a chat with Maria Glymour, I took a quick look at NIH K-award funding rates. It’s a very exploratory/descriptive look, but all the code is up on my GitHub. I’m hoping to find time to dive into the data more at some point.

Just putting it here, with no commentary, in case others who are applying for K’s might find it useful.

UPDATE: Since this post, I applied for, and received, a K99 — check out that blog for more up to date numbers and a new Shiny app.

Overall, how much money does the NIH award through these early career mechanisms?

What is the breakdown of K-award funding by institute/center?Which mechanisms provide the most funding, by institute/center?

Which mechanisms/centers receive the most applications and have the highest success rate?

How has the success rate and funding amount changed over time for the “big K’s”?

Conclusion

I might add more analysis or make a Shiny app in the future. If I do, the GitHub repo will be the place to look.

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Converting Slack’s Team Directory into virtual contact cards

MV Kiang — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 22:52:03 +0000

I spent the summer as a fellow at University of Chicago’s Data Science for Social Good Fellowship (more on that later) where I got to work on optimizing EMS delivery in Cincinnati (additional press). I’m looking forward to talking about it more once the code and official blog post are made public.

Until then, I’m just going to throw up some random code snippets that resulted from the summer.

As far as I could tell, there’s no way to export the contact information out of Slack’s Team Directory into virtual cards that can be quickly and easily added to your phone’s contacts. And since I’m old school and prefer text and email to Slack (also because not every DSSG fellow had Slack on their phone), I wrote a simple script that converts the Team Directory into virtual cards.

Once they are in vcf form, all you need to do is click on them and add them to your phone. Some bugs exist (for example, profile pics only seems to work for iOS users), but it was hacked together pretty quickly — and the IETF spec is atrocious. For convenience, the script also outputs all contact info into a csv file.

Hopefully, at least one other person will use this before Slack decides to get their act together.

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