Teaching nudge for in-class reading assignment. Say “read pages 86-87, then if there’s time, scan over surrounding pages.” The scanning nudge makes a big difference. Tried out recently in my one-day course, fast readers no longer stop and sit there waiting for others to finish
— Edward Tufte (@EdwardTufte) August 26, 2018
Very nice introduction/explanation of regression forecasts requiring no stat/math background:
— Alessandro Vespignani (@alexvespi) August 25, 2018
“How to make accurate football predictions with linear regression”https://t.co/XEYHAl3a8k
"The swelling influence of online retailers is changing the way inflation behaves by making it more sensitive to one-off shocks such as jumps in the price of oil, currency swings or the imposition of tariffs, according to new research." https://t.co/cr5IscPXXV via @FT
— Tim Harford (@TimHarford) August 25, 2018
Four different approaches described as "Data for good" (all with different pitfalls):
— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) August 24, 2018
- skilled volunteer work
- donating tools
- work for nonprofits
- educational programs for underserved communities pic.twitter.com/1O62NYG32h
A stunning thread in terms of growth and scale for a company. You occasionally see this type of analysis after the fact but it's rare and usually less detailed. Startups are superglued hopes and dreams with the real key knowing when and how the superglue needs to be removed. https://t.co/3qdpILVExY
— Smerity (@Smerity) August 24, 2018
Facts that may or may not be obvious:
— Jake VanderPlas (@jakevdp) August 24, 2018
- Jupyter is a nod to 3 languages: Julia, Python, and R
- the "gg" in ggplot stands for "Grammar of Graphics"
- Pandas comes from "panel data"
- naming things is hard, but once the names are out there people rarely think about them
slides for my "I Don't Like Notebooks" #JupyterCon talk:https://t.co/30peBFwTbv
— Joel Grus (@joelgrus) August 24, 2018
Ever plug your phone into an arbitrary charger around the office or at an airport? Our #usesec18 paper shows that we can easily bypass most #android lock screens and then do pretty much whatever we want using old-school AT commands. Patch, then check out our work! #infosec https://t.co/tN0KIy4UHg
— Patrick Traynor (@patrickgtraynor) August 24, 2018
Read every word. Nutritional science is nonsense. Why do health newsletters, from Harvard and the Cleveland Clinic on down, report this nonsense all the time? They may as well be reporting astrology. https://t.co/ZWFCxeFXYP
— Edward Tufte (@EdwardTufte) August 23, 2018
the nature of work is not the result of an algorithm; it is a collection of decisions by corporations and policymakers.https://t.co/QPFUK4t68W
— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) August 23, 2018
Trust, good faith, and a cooperation mindset are the foundational layer of all relationships. Without them, you cannot have a society, or a company, etc. We should place these first, far above self-interest, since the loss of these spells the loss of everything else.
— François Chollet (@fchollet) August 23, 2018
Excited to read this in full. The "it's not just on your manager to give you work - you should work together to solve problems" really resonates with me and I think this shift in thinking is one of the things that happens as you become more experienced. https://t.co/b9YUzgF6w9
— Vicki Boykis (@vboykis) August 23, 2018
