FlowingData

MAY 9, 2024

Stephen Wolfram gets into modeling biological evolution : Why does biological evolution work? And, for that matter, why does machine learning work? Tags: evolution , machine learning , modeling , Stephen Wolfram Both are examples of adaptive processes that surprise us with what they manage to achieve.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Last week Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), in partnership with The Citizen Lab, discovered an in-the-wild 0-day exploit chain for iPhones. However, TAG was unable to capture the full Predator implant.We response, yesterday, Apple patched the bugs in iOS 16.7 and iOS 17.0.1 as CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992, CVE-2023-41993.

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MAY 18, 2023

Yan Wu and Sergio Peçanha, for The Washington Post, provide a rundown and searchable charts for the work so that you can check your own occupation. Tags: AI , Washington Post , work

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FlowingData

MARCH 20, 2024

After all, the uniformity in their output is largely down to the fundamental way in which these tools work. Tags: AI , bias , midjourney , Rest of World For Rest of World, Victoria Turk breaks down bias in generative AI in the context of national identity. Bias in AI image generators is a tough problem to fix.

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FlowingData

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You’ll learn how to use a variety of tools and work through the full visualization process, from data to visual analysis to publication-ready graphics. Tags: book It’s the second edition of Visualize This. It focuses on the how of visualization with practical examples that you can apply to your own data.

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The chart is from the SCF’s “chartbook,” which isn’t the most elegant thing in the world, but it works. Tags: Federal Reserve , income For example, the above shows that net worth increased, across age groups, since the last release in 2019.

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MAY 31, 2023

Tags: hiring , Washington Post , work This is a good example of things are not quite what they seem until you look at more data. Andrew Van Dam, for Washington Post’s Department of Data, looks into why it appears red states hire more than blue states.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

You need a lot of data to make these things work, and the quantity and quality of the training data appears to be the most important factor in how good the resulting model is. Tags: AI , Large Language Model , Simon Willison Instead, it turns out a few hundred lines of Python is genuinely enough to train a basic version!

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FlowingData

AUGUST 18, 2023

Hip-hop music producers often sample from previous works. Tags: hip-hop , music , sampling , Tracklib They remake, restructure, and repurpose the samples to create a new sound. Tracklib broke down iconic hip-hop sampling over the past fifty years , using musical frequency charts to show where the bits of popular songs came from.

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MAY 17, 2024

The outlined process in this second edition is based on my experiences working with data, but the goal is to help you draw your own and find what works best for you. Order on Amazon Tags: writing Maybe have fun with data while you’re at it. You can order Visualize This now.

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FlowingData

JULY 19, 2022

There’s a database of feathers called Featherbase , because of course there is: Featherbase is a working group of German feather scientists and other collectors worldwide who came together with their personal collections and created the biggest and most comprehensive online feather library in the world. Tags: birds , feather.

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FlowingData

JULY 11, 2022

The tool is very ad hoc government-looking, but it seems to work well enough. Tags: Erin Davis , livestock , population , USDA. Erin Davis made some fun maps that use the data at the county level to compare livestock populations to people populations.

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FlowingData

MARCH 18, 2022

However, that also means some areas in the country end up with late sunrise, which means going to work or school in the dark. Tags: daylight saving , sunrise , Washington Post. Changing the clocks twice a year can be a hassle, so some people in the United States want to permanently keep Daylight Saving Time.

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The MLOps Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

integrates with any MLOps stack, and it just works. It’s a technology-agnostic, open-source pipelines framework that’s easy to plugin and just works. Naturally, we joined forces and worked on the Neptune-ZenML integration to make the user experience even better. How does the Neptune-ZenML integration work? neptune.ai

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FlowingData

JANUARY 19, 2022

Our World in Data continues their important work on providing and showing up-to-date Covid data. Tags: coronavirus , mortality , Our World in Data , vaccination. Most recently, they updated death rates in Switzerland by vaccination plus booster status.

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FlowingData

APRIL 26, 2023

Then time sneaks up on us, for many it seems, and we’re stuck having to work longer and rely heavily on Social Security. Tags: income , retirement , USAFacts So we put it off until later. Over at USAFacts, we looked at how much Americans save and show how your savings compare.

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FlowingData

JUNE 2, 2023

In an effort to provide a more transparent process in visualization and interaction research, The Journal of Visualization and Interaction begins : The Journal of Visualization and Interaction (JoVI) is a venue for publishing scholarly work related to the fields of visualization and human-computer interaction.

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FlowingData

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The fire also spread to the town’s southern edge, where the police worked to evacuate residents. Tags: Lahaina , New York Times , wildfire To the north, more residents, unsure of the risk to them, were roused from their homes when flames suddenly reached their streets.

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FlowingData

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

However, that something new often looks a lot like someone else’s work. The explainer on the Stable Attribution homepage is a nice abstraction of how the process works. Tags: AI , attribution , ethics , Stable Diffusion It’s why Getty Images is suing Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion.

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A big part of her studies are rooted in the collection and analysis of centuries-old data: Women are vastly underrepresented in the global labour market and, when they work, they earn less than men. Tags: Claudia Goldin , economics , gender , Nobel Prize , work

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JULY 13, 2023

Deck profiled and commissioned four workers to make things without AI and with: For more than seven years, Santiago Bautista González worked full time selling his cartoon-style illustrations, using the freelance gig marketplace Fiverr. Tags: AI , generative , illustration , Rest of World , work

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FlowingData

MAY 8, 2023

Maybe the most interesting part is that there’s a “check my work” section at the end, which points you to the code to make the maps. Tags: climate change , trees , Washington Post

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Towards AI

MARCH 14, 2024

Whether you’re working with the MJ6 or Niji6 model, this algorithm ensures the “consistency” of your character images. Midjourney has launched a new tag called “cref,” which stands for “character reference.” However, a challenge arises: how can you ensure that the character’s appearance remains consistent across all scenes?

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The New York Times highlighted the work : “We don’t see the latitude and longitude lines of maps,” he said. “We Tags: animals , Anton Thomas , illustration , New York Times During a three-year span, Anton Thomas illustrated a world map of 1,642 animals native to each region. It’s called Wild World.

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Alyssa Fowers worked with the researchers for an updated ranking using a more comprehensive dataset. Tags: birds , ranking , Washington Post. Using data from Project FeederWatch , which is a community tracking project to count birds around feeders, Miller et al. This was in 2017.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

They’re working on a print magazine of the same name. Tags: magazine. Nightingale is a publication from Data Visualization Society that offers more depth for many topics in the field of visualization. Subscribed.

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FlowingData

AUGUST 10, 2021

This works well when you know what you’re looking for, but sometimes you could use a quick overview of what a codebase looks like. Tags: Amelia Wattenberger , code , GitHub. Sort alphabetically, date, or file type, and scroll up and down. Amelia Wattenberger for GitHub used packed circles.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

People working in community organizations or for local, Tribal, state, or Federal governments can use the site to help them develop equitable climate resilience plans to protect people, property, and infrastructure. Tags: climate , hazards.

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FlowingData

APRIL 7, 2022

You can see the typical peaks during work hours with a dip for lunch. Tags: keystrokes , Microsoft , work. Microsoft researchers analyzed keystrokes by time of day, for a sample of Microsoft employees during this past summer. That third peak felt too close to home for me.

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For NYT Opinion, Yaryna Serkez shows the simulation in action with moving bubbles and stacked area charts for each work level. Tags: bias , gender , New York Times , work. The simulation imagines a company where female performance is undervalued by 3 percent. The distribution of men and women start even but end very uneven.

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FlowingData

JANUARY 10, 2023

Tags: age , Tom Brady , Upshot , work. For example, Lilian Thomas Burwell, who is an artist at 95 years old, is well in the upper percentile for those in her field (and the general population). See also: the distributions of age and occupation.

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FlowingData

JANUARY 4, 2023

Work, as you might imagine, sticks around the bottom of the range; eating and drinking lingers around the middle and the top; and socializing sticks around the top. Tags: happiness , time use , well-being. People reported happiness on a scale from 0 to 6, where 0 was not happy at all and 6 was very happy. It runs from age 20 to 70.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

I was working at IBM as the product owner for Watson Visual Recognition. We knew that the API wasn’t the best in class at returning “accurate” tags for images, and we needed to improve it. I’ll never forget my “aha” moment with bias in AI. I was nervous about the.

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FlowingData

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For Wired, stat professor Jeffrey Rosenthal answered statistics questions from Twitter, such as how likely it is you win the lottery, why election polls seem wrong all the time, and how statistical testing works. Tags: Jeffrey Rosenthal , questions , Wired. This was an entertaining and educational 16 minutes.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

We need a book that motivates the students, telling them why probability is so essential to their work. Tags: book , probability , Stanley Chan. Chan: We need a book that balances the theory and practice. We need a book that provides insights and not just theorems and proofs. We need a book that highlights the impacts of the subject.

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2015, Lupi worked on Dear Data , which focused on the little joys of life through visualization-based postcards. Tags: coronavirus , Giorgia Lupi , long Covid , New York Times My spreadsheet was the only thing I could control in a life I no longer recognized. Worth your time.

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 19, 2022

With Covid came sudden shifts in daily life and work, which gave rise to certain companies that were able to fill specific needs. Tags: billionaires , Bloomberg , coronavirus , wealth. Some individuals’ net worth increased many times over. The chart above uses scaled bubbles to show the shifts from peak to present.

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