“Learn by invasion” should imply we know where the past places we invaded are… I’m skeptical 🧐
“Learn by adding geography back into curriculum” model of geography might work though, who knows?
I wish gen pop understood why anarchy is a political philosophy
It really should mean the opposite of what it means
I am beyond disappointed in the tech industry. That THIS is the line in the sand, and one newish titan sees the value in holding it.
But here we are.
oooh cyprus detected, gorgeous
These are some examples of #tidyplots built-in color schemes 🌈
Feel free to create your own!
#rstats #dataviz #phd
We live in a magical time for #dataviz. This map is just a static html page served on GitHub pages 🤯
It uses the incredible {pmtiles} #rstats package by @kylewalker.bsky.social to quickly filter through ~21M rows of data hosted on Cloudflare
vehicletrends.github.io/hhi-map/
for summarising values over groups in plots, I think that generally ridgeplots are superior to box plots and violin plots...
#rstats #statistics #dataviz
Wakes up to war with Iran… @bsky.app is losing its mind.
… sneaks off to read more about the #rstats pipe-wars 🪈
Oh so good!
I’ve been using, “sure, sounds interesting, so I’ll add it to my pro bono queue?”
< immediately clicks on #rstats > 👀
… only to find the same delightful collection of nerdery, beauty and insights as always, plus some memes for .00001% of people 💗
This is when racial injustice first punched through to my generation. Wow after all we’ve seen since it still brings rage tears to my eye.
In a moment of over-intellectualization of this endless frozen scream in which we are stuck…
Talking to a European colleague recently I found myself citing the irony that:
😝 even still, that’s so many tacos and so much beer 😅🍻
The "I feel bad for you", "I don't think about you at all" meme from Mad Men, the first panel has this additional text: "%>%", the second "|>"
Sorry, not sorry #rstats
Of course we don't know when to stop.
[Since the magnetic poles are moving], the (pointless) question is: in what year did the most people live in places where the compass direction was off by less than 5 degrees?
And the answer: the year was 2000
awhogue.github.io/zero-declina...
AND THEN... if we really didn't know when to stop, we could take up this challenge (from the title text):
The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination...
Then, if we were bonkers, we could distort coastlines to reorient them based on their magnetic orientation toward "the north pole", which, on a cylindrical map projection, is the line at the top. ibb.co/XkzmKSPQ
https://geomag.colorado.edu/images/Historical/magnetic_lines_2010.gif
And we'd have to model the variability of the Earth's magnetic field in space, aka patterns of magnetic declenation, which according to geophysics are caused by chaotic forces at the earth's core... science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Well ok, we'd need to pick a *time*, since the drift has been accelerating, particularly since 1980 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_m...
Whoa deep cut @xkcd.com... [takes deep breath] so what's going on here in one post: cylindrical projections *like Mercator* represent the poles as lines instead of points, but what if we wanted to represent the magnetic poles of the Earth, which are shifted slightly in space (and time)? ...
Alaska Petrofuture--a 1964 Union 76 gas station map with 66m sea level rise
The Alaska #Petrofuture map has been challenging. Getting all those little islands to align with modern elevation data has been a complete PITA.
But worth it!
#Alaska #climateChange #seaLevelRise #maps
You should definitely consider picking up a Weekend FT today, because it's the magazine MAPS special. Radical cartography, maps that changed the world, an FT reader competition that almost started a war, they don't love you like i love you, MAPS! www.ft.com/content/efab...
🐰🕳️:
→ Spurious Correlations: tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
→ A BMJ paper people didn't understand was a joke: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1697765/
→ Friday the 13th: International Evidence: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=234828
#DataScience #DataLiteracy #FridayThe13th
Q: Why celebrate just once a year?
A: Actually, 2026 has THREE Friday the 13ths (February, March, and November), and humans across cultures have additional fears — Italy fears Friday the 17th, Hispanic countries fear Tuesday the 13th, and in China the number 4. Lots of opportunities to celebrate!
FAQ:
Q: Why celebrate Data Science Awareness Day?
A: Because superstitious beliefs provide unparalleled life lessons in confirmation bias, conflating correlation with causation, authority bias, and of course the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) whereby we artificially constrain our inquiry.
Today is Friday the 13th, which I herby declare is Data Science Awareness Day!
We love to repeat a story that reinforces our own nonsense; let's never stop.
But as we do this, let's promote awareness of how data science methods help us counter cognitive biases and arrive at better conclusions.
Map of areas of responsibility, or AORs, the administrative subdivisions of the United States used by ICE.
TIL that "Area of Responsibility" is a military term for territories assigned to different combatant commanders. #ICE #ImmigrationEnforcement #AreasOfResponsibility #AOR #USMap #GeographicRegions #MilitaryTerminology #BorderPolicy #ImmigrationPolicy #SocialJustice
I have never been accused of “smashing it”. Agree with Claude, wrong idiom for the North American ear.
I think I have seen “crushing it”, but not lately 😝.
It’s not about #Epstein, it’s about patriarchy. And we are all implicated: in bumbling “investigations”, conspiracy theories drowning out facts, and insensitivity to the humanity of women. If it’s like every other battle for gender equality it will fizzle when Trump is gone.
