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R, the language of choice for statistics, data analysis, and visualization, has a rich ecosystem of packages. While some, like ggplot2…

Explore the architecture of Lag-Llama and learn to apply it in a forecasting project using Python

There are thousands of McDonald’s locations, but there are still more golf courses in the United States. This seems surprising, but some maps make it clear.

Asian workers are more than three times more likely to be physicians. What other jobs jump out? What’s it like for other races and ethnicity?

Whether you heap on the habañero or think black pepper is too bold, here’s how and why your body reacts when you eat something spicy.

Blind users do not have access to the graphical output from R without printing the content of graphics windows to an embosser of some kind. This is not as immediate as is required for efficient access to statistical output. The functions here are created so that blind people can make even better use of R. This includes the text descriptions of graphs, convenience functions to replace the functionality offered in many GUI front ends, and experimental functionality for optimising graphical content to prepare it for embossing as tactile images.

The Global Coal Plant Tracker (GCPT) provides information on coal-fired power units from around the world generating 30 megawatts and above. The GCPT catalogues every operating coal-fired generating unit, every new unit proposed since 2010, and every unit retired since 2000. Units often consist of a boiler and turbine, and several units may make up … Continued

We isolated the vocals of 138 US National Anthem performances and compared each performer's pitch to the standard to see who is the ultimate diva.

How Spotify's expanding catalog reflects 2023's musical frontier

New Zealand leads, US ranks 53rd.

Time series simply represent data points over time. They are thus everywhere in nature and in business: temperatures, heartbeats, births…

On books, bans, censorship, and a little bit of AI

Output similarity is a distraction

Discover where the quietest places are in the loudest cities in the world, from Boston (USA) to Edinburgh (UK) and Vienna (Europe).

All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural language-powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost.

North America has lost 3 billion birds in half a century. The world’s biggest bird database, eBird, shows how bird populations are doing in your town.

Usually you see a railway map from a local perspective, because it’s meant to show how you get from point A to point B. As a learning experiment, Zhaoxu Sui mapped major railways worldwide. I…

Some occupations are more race-dominant than others. This is the percentage of employed persons 16 years and older who are a given race or ethnicity for each.

Across much of the world, men and women think alike. However, in countries that are economically developed and culturally liberal, young men and women are polarising. As chronicled by John Burn-Murdoch, young women are increasingly likely to identify as ‘progressives’ and vote for leftists, while young men remain more

Numbers every LLM developer should know. Contribute to ray-project/llm-numbers development by creating an account on GitHub.

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.

Analyzing my own data to better understand my patterns of wellness

Here's a nice example of presidential election time series models from xkcd: There have only been 56 presidential elections and 43 presidents. That is not a lot of data to learn from. When the pre...

10 highlights from an eventful year