There's a new tool from @ussoccer.com and @akeaswaran.me is here to tell you about it. Introducing Glass Onion, an Identifier Synchronization Tool www.americansocceranalysis.com/home/2026/1/...

This is a direct link to the video itself, instead of the explanation. Apparently, it won the Cannes Grand Prix 2024. Even more baffled that I missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwC6...

This is bonkers: a full music video made in Excel. It was sent as an email attachement. 📊 Conditional formatting, charts, unicode, ASCIII... I'm truly impressed they found the people to do this. 9 months of work apparently.

Utterly disastrous news for public access to soccer data and statistics. www.sports-reference.com/blog/2026/01...

If you only look at the skater performances, Montreal were lucky to get any points, let alone as many as they got. If you look only at the goalie performances, you could say the same thing about Ottawa.

brutal bag of charts by @ashendruk.com www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...

NEW TO GAME ON PAPER: Team history pages and national trends! Here you can see a team’s progression against the rest of the nation in a given metric and flip through their profile radars. National Trends: gameonpaper.com/cfb/charts/t...

This means that for the average person, the likelihood of dying from cancer in any given year is now *lower* than it was for someone of a similar age in the past. The world still has a long way to go in preventing and treating cancer, but it’s wrong to think that no progress has been made.

English is weird

Almost at 3000! probability.kucharski.io

This post is a walk-through with wonderful lessons of good chart design. Like so many of the decisions we make for "accessibility" reasons, the end result is a better product for everyone.

@mattbrown.bsky.social Which Natl Championship game had the highest percentage of CFB fans rooting for the same team? It has to be this one, right?

Students graduating this spring have had ChatGPT since their freshmen year

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

The world as 100 people over the last two centuries

"If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes."

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Like how the poppy 1950's music glosses over the racism and patriarchal social structure of the time? (But dagnumit, I can't get enough of Buddy Holly)

Playing around some more with Eurostat's flight data: observablehq.com/@eurostat-ws... Some interesting discoveries when calculating the difference between 'passengers carried' and 'seats available'. We can visualize 'empty seats' and '% of seats that are empty'. To be continued...

Want to make #Excel MID's 3rd arg optional? Please ⬆️ feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide... If not, I'd love to know what I'm missing. @wynhopkins.bsky.social @excelguru.ca @ddalgleish.bsky.social @unpivotshow.bsky.social @peltiertech.bsky.social @insightsmachine.bsky.social

Same, but it's that people understand marginal tax rates. (If one's "tax rate" is 35%, that doesn't mean every dollar is taxed at 35%!)

Free link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You know what lll never get tired of? Footage of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.

Two great points about e-canvas texture: 1. If writing on a laptop, it's like writing on glass. You can do it, but you don't want to do it for long. 2. Some e-ink devices get close, but are not quite there: "It's like the uncanny valley, but for writers." www.androidpolice.com/im-tired-of-...

Me: "I miss [NAME]'s early stuff. The newer videos are too produced." Friend: "We are talking about #Excel Pivot Table tutorials, not Radiohead."

I see the argument for -- but don't agree with -- putting Miami into the #CFBPlayoff over Notre Dame. But putting in Alabama is daft af.

Hard disagree. The official BLS jobs numbers are still the most reliable data we have, and it's not close. And there's no way the Administration has (yet) fiddled with its data. I promise to let you know at the first whiff of interference.

The #StrangerThings Effect. Despite the spike, Netflix fared a lot better than it has for previous high profile moments of demand.

But that's a number stored as text! The call won't go through!

Do I respond with... - no? (lower case) - 2? - No? (upper case) Respondents are inconsistent enough on their own. Don't introduce MORE variability. (said as someone who spends much of his life cleaning inconsistent survey data)

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

We are facing a crisis of disconnection and this is directly linked to polarization. New research finds that people living in communities with denser social networks consistently reported less partisan animosity and a greater sense of national unity. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

The first ever mid-week #MACtion in Amherst.

In honor of The White Stripes' recent induction into the Rock Hall of Fame, here's an old YouTube video that my daughters loved when they were little (and I still do). youtu.be/az8UDe6UQGQ?...

@sickoscommittee.org Amherst beats Williams with 14 points: No TDs or safeties.

Presenting right now at #NODES2025!! (really, watching former student Will Steadman present) neo4j.com/nodes-2025/a...

Kids used to die A LOT

Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn

In honor of her retirement, here's the Under Armour ad from a decade ago about Misty Copeland getting rejected from ballet as a child. youtu.be/rtX91YGaBXw?...

Outside my office last night, the UMass Performing Arts Center did a sing-along, cOZplay [sic] screening of #Wicked, complete with hot air balloon rides. You can't really tell from the photo, but the building was lit up in pink & green.

A Brief History of Baseball is Dying 🧵

Well, this is just delightful. It has everything: data, survey, charts, stories, videos, scrollytelling, animations, 3D modelling, interviews... 📊

Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Perfect.

Excel turns 40 today. Probably. This is a date-based issue, so we can't be sure if Excel handled it correctly. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...

I'm so solidly in Camp Refuse-video-if-it-could-be-article that I look first for the transcript, then only watch the video if the transcript was confusing.

OK!! #DataBS conf starts in 45min and I'm gonna be busy hosting, SO, things to know: Chat is on discord, NOT zoom: bit.ly/databs-chat Last min registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Official Schedule: databsconf.com/schedule/