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Arindam Basu
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I am the admin of this site and this runs on Pleroma as a backend to Soapbox front-end. I am a medical doctor (ENT specialist), an epidemiologist (Environmental Health), and a professor of Epidemiology at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. I am a member of the NZ FOSS and my hobbies include LEGO MOC building and wood carving and working on shells.

More power to Greta Thunberg!

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Like it or not, the cartoon portrays a stark reality! Sad.

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Before attending #Juliacon2023, I used to believe that more than one language (say #Rstats and #Julialang) are better than one. Juliacon has opened my eyes that a single language, well mastered and used, is enough. For me, Julia, has solved another aspect of two language problem.

Another weekend is upon us ….

Where I work they often use Word documents as “forms”, basically, a bunch of questions and empty “field” like spaces are provided to people who then fill in the Word document and email to whomever. For a particular project, instead of using Word documents as “forms” (business as usual), I designed a form in #Qualtrics and then sent out to the team to check if they would be happy to send out the proper form instead of the Word document. Here are some feedback (comment in parentheses mine):

The form looks good, but I think they’d need to type it word first and transfer it over.

I am not 100% sure that having a (up to) 6000 word application is best done on a survey tool like Qualtrics (quite forgetting that “The Word Document was a “form” with “text spaces” in it);

a few questions/observations from me; there is no spell check when you type on this survey/form can you save it (“Of course you can save a qualtrics form)

I think in the end we will go with sending the Word document, and not a form, :-)

#MicrosoftWord

#Workplace