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In God we trust. All others must bring data.
The Most Important Hashtag for 2017
When something pops up in the news, on Twitter, Facebook or even (ugh) Gab claiming or teasing findings based on data I believe it's more important than ever to reply with some polite text and a #showmethedata hashtag. We desperately…
The Devil is in the Details
The \first public informational video\ from the PEOTUS didn't add a full transcript of the video to the web site and did not provide (at least as of 0700 EST on 2016-11-22) their own text annotations/captions to the…
This is not cool.
First it was OpenDNS selling their souls (and, [y]our data) to Cisco (whom I don't trust at all with my…
Dis-ingenuous
If those were real, functional bulbs that were destroyed…spreading real, irreclaimable refuse…all to shill a far less than revolutionary "professional" laptop…then, just how "enlightened" is Apple,…
Stop.
Stop. — rud.is blog archive
Counting [U.S.] Expatriation with R (a.k.a. a Decade of Desertion)
If you're even remotely following the super insane U.S. 2016 POTUS circus election you've no doubt seen a resurgence of "if X gets elected, I'm moving to Y" claims by folks who are "anti" one candidate or another. The Washington Examiner…
QuickLookR - A macOS QuickLook plugin for R Data files
I had tried to convert my data-saving workflows to feather but there have been issues with it supporting large files (that seem to be near resolution), so I've been continuing to use R Data files for local saving of processed/cleaned…
When life imitates Fullmetal Alchemist
The NIH is \moving forward\ with plans to financially support & encourage human-animal chimera…
New codewords for "age & family discrimination"
From: Why Corporate America Is Leaving the Suburbs for the…
U.S. Drought Animations with the "Witch's Brew" (purrr + broom + magick)
This is another purrr -focused post but it's also an homage to the nascent magick package (R interface to ImageMagick) by…