re: Florida Police Raid The Home Of Fired Data Scientist

Yeh sorry oWeO looks like I spoke too soon, this broad is fricking crazy.

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I don't even think that guy's a data scientist. He's a software developer. A data scientist is largely an end user of software tools designed to extract insights from large datasets. The code he writes is largely ad hoc in nature. It may be very clever code, but it's not application code that anyone else is going to use directly.

It seems like people are invoking the title "data scientist" like some sort of magic spell here to lend credibility. Even if that were this chick's job, that wouldn't be justified.

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There needs to be another term for that than "data scientist"

All this chick did was take CSV files from various counties, combine into one CSV file, then uploaded it to ArcGIS, and maybe created some basic dashboards.

That's not science. Data science is dealing with machine learning algorithms. Creating juvenile level Tableau dashboards from a CSV file is not science.

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this broad is fricking crazy.

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You are correct.. She was fired from LSU for publishing stolen data on the web and refusing to remove the stolen data.
On June 13, 26-year-old University staff member Rebekah Jones was booked on one count of battery on a police officer, one count of remaining after forbidden and two counts of resisting arrest, Scott said. Scott said officers arrived at the Sea Grant building when Jones refused to leave at the request of LSU Human Resources. Scott said Jones initiated physical contact against two LSUPD officers while resisting arrest and officers were forced to subdue her.

It’s not clear why LSU’s Human Resources department asked one of their own staff members to leave the area.

Jones also has an extensive criminal history in Leon County, where she’s been arrested and charged with three felonies, including one for robbery, and a handful of misdemeanor cases including “sexual cyberstalking,” a case where she created a website and used it to sexually harass her ex-boyfriend. The website has been taken down, but images from the case exist in Leon County court records.

Most of the charges filed against her came after she was hired by the Department of Health, so they would not have turned up in any background check.

The bottom line: Rebekah Jones was fired for performance issues, not for “refusing to manipulate data.” And her extensive criminal history, which predates her employment in Florida, lends credence to the DeSantis administration that she was just a troublesome employee who is now disgruntled and trying to get media attention about her firing. The easiest way to get media attention right now is to claim a Republican elected official is involved in a conspiracy to cover up COVID-19 data detrimental to reopening the state economy.

The media outlets listed above will not issue retractions. They will double down on the idea that DeSantis’s administration is withholding / manipulating / deleting / altering data. That, too is totally false. But mark these words, the embarrassment of touting Rebekah Jones

Yeh that is insane. She probably pictures herself as Edward Hoe-den or something. She just likes to publish recorded data just for fun?

Not replying to anyone in particular, but since she has a history of battery on a Police Officer it is entirely possible that she is flagged violent in NCIC. I guarantee that she was run in NCIC before the warrant was executed.

Also, just because the warrant was executed in Florida, doesn't mean DeSantis ordered it to shut her up. It is more likely that he had no knowledge of it, especially considering one of the laws she broke would be a federal offense, if she was activating the EAS at any level. I am pretty sure it was said that it was not her credentials that were used but her IP address.

Finally, from almost everything I have read that doesn't come from the press, she wasn't asked to alter or suppress numbers, but there was some issues with how the state was receiving the numbers being reported, and that some of the reports were errant. It was ordered that reports were vetted and verified before reporting. We saw this happen, and it was reported on this site, when the VA in Orlando reported 100% positive tests during this same time frame.

Trouble follows this woman everywhere she goes, yet she turns it around to play the victim every time. There is a clear pattern with her and it doesn't take much digging to realize that she is one of those who feels like everything is "someone else's fault" and she feels she can do no wrong. Why people are martyring her is beyond me.

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If she was told to manipulate the data so that it doesn't show as many cases as they actually and she didn't feel comfortable doing so and she wanted to make people aware (assuming that's all there is to it), how is she trying to "scare" people?

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She wasn't though. She was told to disable the export function temporarily while medical experts reviewed some anomalies. The export function is what allowed the data from the state to be submitted out. She was never asked nor did she have the expertise or authority to change numbers. She was fired for taking it upon herself to make the data exportable again before medical experts were done reviewing the data.

What do you mean "Bidens America?" Are you thinking the people doing the raid were Biden supporters? Just trying to put things together here.

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LMAO this is literally Trumps America.

frick you for suggesting otherwise.

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It's insane how out of touch with actual reality the alt-right is.

Hi, I help run @insubordinates8 on Twitter.
We document all of Rebekah’s lies and inconsistencies. Could you message me on here or on Twitter? It’s been a real struggle trying to find out the LSU firing story. I’d love to hear more.