While I agree that some people need to create models, it is very important to understand that not everyone is able to create them. For example journalists should not be able to create such models, they lack the knowledge.
Agreed. That is an important point.
Let epidemiologist do the modelling, and use some back-of-the-envelope calculations to convince yourself of the orders of magnitude.
It's super annoying that everyone who knows what a jupyter notebook is now starts blogging about their own modelling efforts.
conformist|6 years ago