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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

A Python package for interactive mapping and geospatial analysis with minimal coding in a Jupyter environment

In the U.S., 12% of all restaurants serve Asian food; that share is slightly higher than the 7% of the U.S. population that is Asian American.

There are so many goodies in base R. Let’s explore some functions you may not know.

Accurate, information-rich flight datasets delivered through OAG. Including schedules, historical data, connections, bookings, and real-time flight status.

NUKEMAP is a website for visualizing the effects of nuclear detonations.

In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for the web, Flash was the main option. When Flash lost support and fell off the internet, a solid decade of great visualiz…

YouTube doesn’t offer numbers for how big they are, so Ethan Zuckerman and Jason Baumgartner estimated the size using a method they equate to drunk dialing. Consider drunk dialing again. Let’…

I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university wh…

60 days of life in the Gaza Strip.

Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations. Contribute to amices/mice development by creating an account on GitHub.

In this blog post, we share our innovative approach to scoring data quality, Airbnb’s Data Quality Score (“DQ Score”).

R programming language is one of my all time favorites. Though, the future might not be so bright.

A Bloomberg analysis reveals that X’s Community Notes solution fact-checks information about the war slowly and inconsistently, letting false posts spread fast while global tensions are high.

i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom