📊 Want to make your R data manipulation more efficient? Discover 4 essential subsetting techniques in our new post!

Visit https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2024-11-12/ and share your thoughts in the comments!

#R #RStats #Programming #Data #Learn #Blog #dplyr #datatable

🚀 Dive into the world of R with our latest guide on subsetting data frames! Learn 4 practical methods to streamline your data analysis.

Check it out at https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2024-11-12/ and let us know your favorite method!

#R #RStats #Programming #Data #Tips #dplyr #datatable #Blog

Major media organisations still use the word "island" most frequently to describe Taiwan

"Yet, the most popular noun, island, also serves as a way to avoid making a more straightforward claim of its own. By choosing the noun island, outlets can effectively sidestep the question of Taiwan’s status entirely."

https://thediplomat.com/2024/11/how-do-media-organizations-define-taiwan/

#Taiwan #台灣 #media #journalism #data

In a truly dystopian era, a whitewashing of existing media considered 'negative' or questionable by the reigning administration would no longer be searchable or findable, and only media that sustains and reinforces the administration allowed to filter down to the public via data search results.

Through administrative actions, targeted news would disappear and not be accessible in any way that might put officials in legal jeopardy or allow honest analysis.

#media #tech #data #power #propaganda

🚀 New to R? Discover how the setdiff() function can simplify your data analysis! Check out my guide for easy-to-follow examples and best practices. Dive in and start coding today! 📊🔍

Read more: https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2024-11-05/

#R #RStats #Programming #Data #LearnR #RProgramming #setdiff #blog

Ranting Trump loses his way as Harris backers dare to hope https://www.politico.eu/article/ranting-donald-trump-loses-way-as-kamala-harris-backers-dare-to-hope/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #U.S.presidentialcampaigns #U.S.election2024 #ForeignAffairs #Buildings #Elections #Americas #Research #Borders #Media #Data #Poll

James Blake is breaking free from the music industry, and he wants to help others do the same https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-02/james-blake-music-industry-major-labels-social-media-lil-yachty/104164024 #copyright #music #data #musicbiz #performance

🥳 After five years of dreaming, listening, writing, editing, and hustling, our book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA is finally available to the public!!!

Happy launch day to my dear friend and coauthor @jesse and thanks to the @themitpress team for all the support.

Buy it here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/the-secret-life-of-data/

#newbook #books #bookstodon #data #surveillance #privacy #commodon

WA climate activist to appeal against conviction for denying police access to mobile and laptop https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/20/wa-climate-activist-disrupt-burrup-hub-joana-partyka-appeal-denying-police-mobile-laptop-access Joana Partyka, of Disrupt Burrup Hub group, has pleaded not guilty to two charges of failing to obey a data access order. #auslaw #climate #activism #data #confidentialinformation

New study: "The #OpenScience, #patent-free nature of the project enabled a large number of collaborators to provide in-kind support…By making all #data immediately available and ensuring that all compounds are purchasable…without the need for materials transfer agreements, we aim to accelerate research globally along parallel tracks…We hope that this can serve as an alternative model for antiviral discovery and future #pandemic preparedness."
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abo7201

#COVID #COVIDMoonshot

Over the past year or so, I've been struggling to articulate exactly why the practice of #data #protection has frequently felt like a defeatist slog. A few days ago, I read an amazing piece by Zvi Mowshowitz (#thezvi), and it helped to define a form for all the thoughts swirling in my head.

It's really very simple: The current approach most of us have towards data protection and #privacy does not motivate anyone towards positive action that meaningfully protects data or privacy. Instead, we're encouraged to spend cycles on pointless privacy #theatrics, so that we can signal to others and ourselves how much we all care about privacy.

This is a broken model, and I've got some ideas for how to fix it.

I really think this is one of my better pieces, so if you're in this space (or interested) have a read and let me know your thoughts.

I posted it on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7047855109925429249/

And on my website here: https://knowligence.info/beyond-privacy-theatre-or-why-our-laws-mean-we-cant-have-nice-things/

This week, the world’s human #population is expected to reach 8B. About 109B people have lived and died. Each grain of sand represents 10M.

Spectacular #data visualization of human life on Earth by Max Roser #science

Fascinating analysis from the Economist: “In the four days after Elon Musk took the keys to Twitter, Republican members of Congress collectively gained around 470,000 followers. The opposite was true for Democrats in both chambers. Their House and Senate representatives lost 420,000 followers.”

#Twitter #TwitterMigration #ElonMusk #TheEconomist #data #dataviz

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/10/31/how-will-elon-musk-shape-twitter