Well none of that is referenced in this article. Do you have a decent source for these claims?
Also I don't think looking down your nose at the quality of her degrees in doing yourself any favours. This article claims she wrote the code that pulled the stats together so at the very least there was some familiarity with the problem set. You'd figure implementation issues are just the matter of a Github review or smth, so how did it get to her being fired and all this crap happening?
I'm not "looking down my nose" at anyone. I realize that capability does not come from degrees alone, but it's a legitimate question that should be asked. There are plenty of people who can code but don't know anything about data science, but like to pretend they do. She was involved in setting up the dashboard, but that's an entirely different skill set than epidemiology. Aren't you suspect that the article didn't seek the opinion of any of those epidemilogists?
Well I don't have a degree in anything which makes me wonder if you'd ever listen to me on any subject ever.
I am not inherently suspect or not suspect of the article. We discuss it and then if other data turns up we discuss that. If you have a former colleague of hers being on the record or her previous employer is going to make a statement then sure but if you're just gonna speculate then I'm kinda "nah".
I'm not speculating anything. Maybe she's one of the best data scientists out there, I don't know. But the article expressed little interest in asking what should be an obvious question. Or why she may have been fired. Sure, it's unfair to speculate, but we should expect some fair journalism.
Also I don't think looking down your nose at the quality of her degrees in doing yourself any favours. This article claims she wrote the code that pulled the stats together so at the very least there was some familiarity with the problem set. You'd figure implementation issues are just the matter of a Github review or smth, so how did it get to her being fired and all this crap happening?