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Ivan Alvarez

@ivan_a_alvarez

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Data scientist at @stepstone_de. Formerly @BBC/@UCBerkeley/@UniofOxford/@UCL.

London, UK
Joined January 2015
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Ivan Alvarez
4 years
Excellent example on how to do geotag data visualisation right, allowing it to enrich a story (source in Spanish).
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Ivan Alvarez
4 years
Delighted to announce I will shortly be joining @bbcdatalab as Senior Data Scientist. Looking forward to new challenges, tinkering with data, and serving the huge and varied audiences the BBC reaches every day!
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Ivan Alvarez
4 years
Really nice paper by Ethan Duwell, @EricaWoertz and others at the DeYoe Lab showing evidence in favour of dual population receptive field in albinism. Raises some interesting questions about the spatial level at which retinal inputs get disentangled.
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Ivan Alvarez
5 years
This one has been a long time coming, our paper Altered visual population receptive fields in human albinism, is now out in Cortex🎉🎉.
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5 years
New blogpost! Because I was bored, I decided to model my local climbing wall as a graph network.
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Ivan Alvarez
6 years
New blogpost! Time to delve into the data and see if the ongoing 2019 fires in the Brazilian Amazon are truly exceptional. #AmazonRainforest #Brazil #AmazonFire #dataviz .
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Ivan Alvarez
6 years
Our new paper Normative Cerebral Cortical Thickness for Human Visual Areas, is now published in NeuroImage 🎉🎉.
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Ivan Alvarez
6 years
Clinical studies looking at cerebral cortical thickness typically have small sample sizes, but what is the true range of variability in CT? We crunched a large HCP dataset to derive normative values across human visual areas. Pre-print here:.
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Studies of changes in cerebral neocortical thickness often rely on small control samples for comparison with specific populations with abnormal visual systems. We present a normative dataset for...
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Ivan Alvarez
6 years
New blogpost! This time I looked at Eurovision and how we can map disagreement between juries and the public to spot trends in public opinion in large datasets.
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Ivan Alvarez
7 years
New blogpost! Some hard data on just how rare airplane crashes are, why you shouldn’t pick airlines based on safety record, and why if you absolutely -have- to be in a plane crash, you want to do it with Dagestan Airlines.
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Ivan Alvarez
8 years
RT @SaadJbabdi: Late xmas read - hope you enjoy it!
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Ivan Alvarez
8 years
New blogpost! So just how wrong are the UK election polls?.
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Ivan Alvarez
9 years
New blogpost! Would giving everyone $1000 in the US for voting fix democracy or break the economy?.
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Ivan Alvarez
9 years
China is a better bellwether state than Missouri #USElection #Elections2016 #Polling #dataviz
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Ivan Alvarez
9 years
New blogpost! On the world voting for US president, and where to vacation to find your political soulmate.
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Ivan Alvarez
9 years
Circle of Willis - interactive 3D animation!.
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Ivan Alvarez
9 years
Another clear and concise #dataviz from @nytimes.
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Ivan Alvarez
9 years
Excellent example of good science journalism. More of this sort of thing please! #scicomm
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9 years
Feel guilty about not flossing? Evidence is scant for benefits of dental floss.
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Ivan Alvarez
9 years
Beautiful cover for Nature Neuroscience this month.
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