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A R package for giphy API. Contribute to haozhu233/giphyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Explore the weird and wonderful things on Google Street View

The toll of China’s epidemic is unclear. But dozens of obituaries of the country’s top academics show an enormous loss in just a few weeks.

Technical Fridays - personal website and blog

We've fine-tuned GPT-3 to more accurately answer open-ended questions using a text-based web browser. Our prototype copies how humans research answers to questions online—it submits search queries, follows links, and scrolls up and down web pages. It is trained to cite its sources, which makes it easier to give

The bare bones introduction all you need to know.

:maple_leaf: Make waffle (square pie) charts in R. Contribute to hrbrmstr/waffle development by creating an account on GitHub.

Contribute to adobe-research/MakeItTalk development by creating an account on GitHub.

We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in

Posit PBC

Reddit user nerdydancing tracked her earnings on each shift for four years. If any dataset promised stories behind each data point, it is probably this one.

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphorical clock that symbolizes a catastrophic end to the planet due to human self-destruction. Midnight represents an event and the time represents the “minutes&#8…

For Bloomberg, Joe Mayes, Andre Tartar, and Demetrios Pogkas show shifts in public opinion in the UK, based on Bloomberg UK’s Levelling Up Scorecard. I’m into the gradients to show the opinio…

Weekly bite-sized tips on DataViz, Shiny and Stats/Machine Learning.

Data visualizations of street names in Tirana, Albania.

Way back in 2013, I wrote this blog post explaining why you should never use a statistical test to check whether a sample came from a Gaussian distribution. I argued that data from the real world n…

Year after year, the community shares wonderful examples of just how to make presentation tables, and this year was certainly no exception.

A 2.5 year long story about the open source R community and the #nflverse.

An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API, allowing you to scrape a user's followers, following, Tweets and more whi...

We categorized the top locations by state, type, and genre to rank the most filmed locations in each category.

An in-depth dive into the workings of logistic regression.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis made a misleading graph portraying China as spending more on its military than the US. The Pentagon budget is three times larger

Below I've compiled some of my favorite long-run figures. Strong US-bias here - apologies. Email me if you think others should be included.

In addition to econometric essentials, Mostly Harmless Econometrics covers important new extensions — regression discontinuity designs and quantile regression —

:zap: Dynamically generated stats for your github readmes - GitHub - anuraghazra/github-readme-stats: Dynamically generated stats for your github readmes

It might not help the message, but it looks good on Twitter