I have been using the book in my data analytics class since 2021 and it is great. I am particularly excited about the fact that the new version is using the `marginaleffects` package for the Working with models chapter
What are we going to do about the impending slop paper deluge? I thought @causalinf.bsky.social had some terrifying estimates of just how many papers (and referee requests) are coming
causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-cod...
Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
Social Circle is just down the road. Town of 5,000 whose population will more than double. No info to the city officals on how their infrastructure will handle it.
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
Wrote a little thing about work my class is doing this semester in a historically Black cemetery in town. Yet major map providers don't even show the cemetery space on their maps. Our work is trying to fill that cartographic void. www.communitymappinglab.org/blog/the-abs...
Wrote a little thing about work my class is doing this semester in a historically Black cemetery in town. Yet major map providers don't even show the cemetery space on their maps. Our work is trying to fill that cartographic void. www.communitymappinglab.org/blog/the-abs...
To meet its current consumption levels with renewable energy, the United States would need the area equivalent to what’s currently used for maple syrup.
Reminder for abstracts: A special issue of the Annals of the AAG is seeking to take stock of where we are today in terms of geographic theory. 🌎
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by March 31, 2026. View the full set of submission guidelines: buff.ly/rTVx1VG
Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data.
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The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.
Love to see a ratio like that
Teaching DuBois' The Philadelphia Negro next week and just get a kick out of the attitude coming out even in the first footnote.
Radical Republicans ca. 1871: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to curb the power of white supremacy
Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy
There are places where Trump, as president, has broad freedom of action. And there are places where Trump, as president, has been able to act unilaterally because the main point of opposition, Congress (and SCOTUS), support his program. (1/?)
We lived in North Minneapolis (the neighborhood where the shooting happened last night) for eight years. 100% this. Tactical actions by law enforcement were a regular occurrence, and I can't remember a time when Black folks were not the targeted individuals.
Secretary of the Interior for the US posts a map titled "The New Interior" showing a line for a flight from DC to Anchorage at 7.5 hours and a DC to Nuuk of 6.5 hours.
US Secretary of the Interior posts prevailing, still current view of US Administration. The propaganda imagery is getting tiring, and yet maps are still popular.
She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..."
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
Which is more likely: stores will completely upend their inventory or will stop accepting SNAP?
a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content
This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.
Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social
At least he's being honest. All about oil.
""The most thrilling moments for us as educators come when we see the glint and sparkle of a student having an illumination: [...]Those moments underline for us that learning is ultimately a process, and one that is predicated on friction and struggle."
Colleague Ben Noll of Capital Weather Gang analysis...Christmas average U.S temperature tomorrow will likely be the warmest by quite a bit....Here, we will be in 70s. But a dramatic cool down again next week.
Looks interesting. Google Earth Engine data in QGIS. x.com/spatialthoug...
