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Three years ago, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) started formal programming for Love Data Week with workshops and panels to highight the critical role data play in teaching, research, and careers. Penn State and the other...
https://dominicroye.github.io/blog/spain-temperature-normals-openmeteo/ The author goes through his many choices for building the above chart, and gives the code and shows how they gathered the data for it. Thoughtful and thorough.
Life has been a little hectic lately. I've been spending most of my time finding someone to take over my apartment, packing, and getting ready for my move back to the Boston area. I'm excited to start my new job, and even more excited to...
On a gorgeous morning, it would seem incongruous to read the news about last night’s elections were it not for the incessant begging of crow fledglings up in the woods, two of them, competing to see who can sound the most pitiable.
This article is part of my ‘Big Ideas’ series, in which I help readers understand complex issues within the world of film. Today’s article includes a bonus report for paying subscribers, titled “Predicting Movie Hits” (download link at...
I predicted what was going to happen the whole time, and I was happy to be right about most of it. Great to see Dustin Hoffman. I liked Leo Woodall, but there was this low-grade smirk on his face too much of the time. Anyway, thumbs up.
“No one has yet determined what the body can do.” (Spinoza) While it has always been thus, today more than ever, higher education consists of helping students find out what their bodies can do. We can, perhaps, limit this learning to...
Cliff Robertson and Sandra Dee in Gidget (1959) Vitals Cliff Robertson as Burt “The Big Kahuna” Vail, beach bum and Korean War Veteran Malibu, California, Summer 1959 Film: Gidget Release Date: April 10, 1959 Director: Paul Wendkos...
The format impacts everything.Choosing a format or "paper size" will affect everything about your project, so I recommend thinking about it early. The earlier the better. The sooner you start thinking about format, the sooner you start...
I believe that all new scientific discoveries should be announced via cake, don't you?[pushing back glasses and consulting clipboard] Ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to present... The Majestic Bagel-Nosed Falcon of Uganda!Or it might be...
It’s been (inexactly) 46 days since my last rant, and the place wouldn’t feel the same if I wasn’t (mildly) furiously hammering my current train of thought into vim, bare-brained, like the semi-civilized ape-like creature that we all are...
Learning Chinese, or any language, makes you more aware of language in general. And one thing that surprised me is that, despite Mandarin being so different from my mother tongue (Dutch), both languages reach for the same units when...
https://kolistat.com/blog/the-stats-duck-v0-6-0/ Announcement of a really neat duckdb extension called the-stats-duck (KoliStat/the-stats-duck) which puts statistical functions inside duckDB. It then goes on to add some visualization in...