Looks like me and @eadehemingway.bsky.social are going to be running a workshop on data analysis with @pola.rs at NICAR in March. Maybe see some of you there!

Grade inflation in some UK universities? Lost myself in cool dataviz in great piece by @amyborrett.ft.com www.ft.com/content/6935...

Weeks after writing about how the best ideas bleed btwn R and python, I find out from @stephenturner.us 's excellent blog that the #rstats world is attempting their own Rust-based analog to `uv` (for deps mgmt not packaging) Haven't tried but neat to watch a2-ai.github.io/rv-docs/

This is an interesting essay on methodological weaknesses in computer science and machine learning, exploring the limits of trying to accumulate knowledge mainly by building things. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...

Merry Christmas from North Wales, which is bracingly cold but beautiful.