Miriam Quick

Hold The Line, by Loud Numbers track by Loud Numbers

Thanks Sonja! The music track is also on Bandcamp at loudnumbers.bandcamp.com/track/hold-t...

How to Win Eurovision in 7 Easy Steps

I crunched the numbers for this @nytimes.com piece by Alex Marshall on how to win Eurovision.

What would you add to this list?

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/a...

A hand drawn graph showing the rise in global land temperatures published in 1938.

87 years ago.

In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming.

He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal.

87 years ago.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

If you want to join the broader US govt data rescue efforts, there’s a list of ways to help at www.datarescueproject.org/current-effo...

B, because it’s the only one that isn’t the odd one out

This was excellent

Chart showing lives saved by US foreign aid by sector, lives potentially lost per day during aid freeze, cost per life saved, annual US aid amount.

Estimates by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social:

US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa.

And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.

All the best!

This looks like a very nice dataviz job but it’s not an artist role…

A huge shoutout to @christian.czymara.com 🙌 who created a customised #rstats chatgpt called Code Nerd that replies only with bare code. It's absolutely magnificent 😍 chatgpt.com/g/g-J5futwiV...

How poor sleep could fuel belief in conspiracy theories By prioritising good sleep we may be able to boost our ability to think critically and resist misinformation.

Interesting. Sleeping badly is linked with belief in conspiracy theories theconversation.com/how-poor-sle...

Oh no 😔

Good news! The current lack of transparency about UK land ownership is ridiculous.

I am sorry to hear that. I wish you all the best.

Bar charts should always start at zero. But what about line charts? If there's one thing almost everyone agrees on in data visualization, it's that bar charts should start at zero . Starting them anywhere e...

As always, the decision whether to start at axis at zero is a complex one. Here’s a great discussion: www.chadskelton.com/2018/06/bar-...

Does the axis have to start at zero? (Part 1 – line charts) At the risk of ruffling a few data vis feathers … no? But there are often occasions when it should. Let’s take a look at line charts first ...Line charts focus on change, not compari

I work in data visualisation. It’s absolutely the case that bar charts should start at zero but line charts don’t have to. See this ONS blog: digitalblog.ons.gov.uk/2016/06/27/d...

Go back to X sweetheart, you'll like it more there.

I’d be interested to understand more about the (presumably relatively small number of) older people who don’t have kids and appear less happy - how many of them *chose* to remain childfree vs *couldn’t* have kids eg bc of disability, health issues?

It’s not misleading. Origin point doesn’t have to be at zero in a line chart, only a bar chart. The key differences are between age groups and between those with / without kids, and they are best shown by zooming in to relevant bit of y axis, as he does.

After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Ofc this is also a potential privacy risk if you’re working with sensitive data so use appropriately.

The main advantage, apart from less faff and finger strain, is that the AI has access to your full environment, so knows what’s in your dataframe, what objects you’ve created etc. No more long queries that start ‘I have a dataframe, df’ 😂

High Performance, Low Friction Large Language Model Chat Introduces a Copilot-like completion experience, but it knows how to talk to the objects in your R environment. ellmer chats are integrated directly into your RStudio and Positron sessions, automatica...

So I’ve just discovered you can use the R packages gander and ellmer to chat with AI assistants directly in RStudio. Sooooo much easier than copy pasting chunks of code into ChatGPT. simonpcouch.github.io/gander/

Thanks for the add

And Musk agreed to his transgender daughter’s transition treatment, although now claims he didn’t. You’d think personal experience would give them, idk, empathy?

New bedtime reading

Hooray! Thanks for introducing this feature.

Hello and thank you for the lovely welcome! 😀

Old post but I just joined Bluesky so here you go ❤️

Europe reels after Trump announces US-Russia talks over Ukraine Germany criticises US for making ‘public concessions to Putin before negotiations have even begun’

What the actual

Europe reels after Trump announces US-Russia talks over Ukraine on.ft.com/40VnfzW