Dave Swedler

@daveswedler

Public health statistician (PhD, MPH) currently working for Chicago DPH. All opinions are my own. Dog photos will be posted. Chicago. He/him.

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Dave Swedler@daveswedler· 3d

This statistician had a stroke when he got to this section of the article. Medians are *specifically resistant* to outliers! Say “average age,” and you’d be fine. But not median!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/n...

White text on a black background. The key phrase is “basically doubled the administration’s median age.”

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· 6d

A lo, I say until you, a good time was had.

A man in a white shirt over a white undershirt, holding a hotdog in one hand, and pointing up with 2 fingers in the other. He is wearing a black mitre on his head and looking away from the camera

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· 11d

Someday when this girl shuffles off her mortal coil, this is what I will remember: laying in the sunbeam, giving me side-eye when I ask if she wants to go outside.

A tan and white dog lays in the sunbeam on a gray bed

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· 13d

Work happy hour canceled. I’ll just have NA happy hour with my girl instead.

A yellow and orange can of non-alcoholic beer in the foreground. A tan and white dog looks back at the camera in a sassy fashion

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· 15d

All of the stories under the Crime header of the @chicago.suntimes.com homepage are of traffic crashes right now (9:20 am 8/3). Traffic violence = bad? Huge if true.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· 18d

She’s been lethargic since mom has been out of town.

A tan and brown dog lays on a gray dog bed.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· 21d

My “slightest breeze rustling any objects in the house” detector (pictured here hiding in a corner from the danger) went off.

a little tan and white dog sits in the corner looking concerned into the distance

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· 24d

This spot is taken. Move along

Two cats sit in a gutter, staring at the camera

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· 28d

A public health story in two parts. Or, pushing food safety decisions onto the customer.

Two bags of pre-made Taylor farms salad kits

Two empty bags of Taylor Farms salad kits sitting by a green compost bucket

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Jul 16

At @cdph.bsky.social we have the largest network of urban air quality sensors. This is what it looked like this morning. Things are bad map.clarity.io/open-air-chi...

A map of the city of Chicago made up of dots. The dots are mostly red.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Jul 2

Pausa de hidratación de Chicago

An Old Style beer sitting on a messy coffee table with the World Cup on in the background

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· May 28

A very Chicago moment: opening a new jar of giardiniera, spooning some out for my sandwich for lunch, & saying “yeah, this is some good giardiniera.” Just fit me for a Bears hat & mustache, already.

A jar of Orlando old world medium giardiniera sits on a kitchen counter.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· May 21

It was a good, solemn ride.

A group of people standing near Chicago’s lakefront with Buckingham Fountain and high rises in the background.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· May 18

If Waymo’s, when they are still controlled by human drivers (like here) are parking in bike lanes, there truly is no chance that they’ll avoid bike lanes when the machines are in control.

As viewed from above, over a building’s roof: a white car sits in a bike lane near some trees.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Apr 23

Now that it’s not way below zero, I have started coming up out of the pedway in the Honorable Richard J Daley Plaza. Damn near gets me fired up each morning

A panorama of Daley Plaza in Chicago with The Picasso in the right of the frame

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Apr 17

Watching my back at the home office

Half of a man’s face with a tan dog laying on the floor behind him.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Apr 15

Incoming President of SAVIR, Shabbar Ranapurwala, gives us the good word on our way out the door after a great conference #SAVIR2026

A man in a gray suit speaks at a dais in front of a blue background

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Apr 13

After skipping a year, so happy to return to SAVIR. And I am now in Rhode Island for the first time- not sitting on a train waiting to pass through RI #SAVIR2026

A roadside sign saying “Discover beautiful Rhode Island.”

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Apr 12

Don’t be jealous, fellow Chicago transit advocates.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Apr 8

You’re gone for three days then don’t pay the slightest attention to me when you get back this morning. But as soon as I open the bag of shredded carrots, you’re my best friend.

A tan and white dog sits on a light blue rug, begging for food

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Apr 6

Wind was very much doing the “in my face both out and back” thing today

A blue bike with an orange water bottle in front of geeen grass, a spit of the lake and the Chicago skyline.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Mar 29

Count me among those Chicagoans seeking to manifest Real Spring taking the dog for a walk in my shorts

A white man in a blue sweatshirt and ya shorts standing in front of a tans and white dog

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Mar 29

She always believed

A tan and white dog sits next to a big magnet in the shape of a dog paw with the Illinois Block I

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Mar 9

False Spring part III I accept

A man in a white top leans to the side as the sun peeks over his shoulder. The CTA Red Line passes over his head.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Feb 16

It was so packed on the LFT between Navy Pier & Belmont that it’s possible that I ran past you (yes you) at some point today.

A man in a white shirt and black hat in front of a grass field in the foreground and various buildings in the background.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Feb 15

I know it’s false spring & winter is sure to return shortly. But 50 in February is 50 in February.

White man in a yellow jacket, white shirt, brown hair and sunglasses standing in front of a brick building in the sun.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Feb 12

City employee enjoying his day off for Lincoln’s Birthday

A white man in a blue hat, glasses, and black coat stands in an open square with some high rise buildings behind him.

A small paperback book that says “Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln” partly hides the face of a man in glasses, brown hair and a yellow sweatshirt

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Jan 30

Bad news, girl. You didn’t poop this morning when it wasn’t snowing. So now we have to go out when it is much worse. If only you could comprehend cause & delayed effects.

A brown and white dog naps on a gray bed.

Snow flakes fall with a building roof in the foreground and taller buildings in the background.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Jan 24

Witnessed this in person today. It cold.

Dave Swedler@daveswedler· Jan 22

Do food bots break in the cold? Or is this broken food bot taking up sidewalk space at Lincoln-Halsted during rush hour broken for other reasons? At least the second bot in the photo was working #Chicago