Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

In a recent FT article, the director of Cybersecurity Belgium claimed it was impossible to store data within the EU. "Dream on" he said. This reflects the widespread lack of IT understanding among executives, who should wise up & help us regain our digital autonomy: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

From dbhub.ai/blog/state-o.... #MCP #postgres #Database #ai #LLM

Epstein files merch out now!

How did people in 1913 see the world? Scientists trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts—no Wikipedia, no 20/20. The model literally doesn't know of WWI. And it reflects spirit of the times without guardrails reflecting modern-day sensitivities. This is a terrific research application of LLMs.

Joe Ely van de Flatlanders is overleden. Kut nieuws indeed. #JoeEly #Flatlanders #RIP

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

When I worked for Obama, I advised him on how to talk to Russian leaders. I never gave the Kremlin advice on how to talk to Obama (and I talked to Ushakov many times!).

Because @laurewynants.bsky.social and @benvancalster.bsky.social do no get on here much #DataScience #MachineLearning #MissingData #Imputation #Rstats #Python #AI journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Het verbaast me dat journalisten en academici Raoul Hedebouw hiermee gewoon laten wegkomen. In @deafspraaktv mocht Hedebouw, beweren dat “we” twee tot zes keer meer uitgeven aan wapens dan de Russen (zie fragment [link.mp4]) #RaoulHedebouw #PVDA #deafspraak #deafspraakopvrijdag #Rusland /1

Het verbaast me dat journalisten en academici Raoul Hedebouw hiermee gewoon laten wegkomen. In @deafspraaktv mocht Hedebouw, beweren dat “we” twee tot zes keer meer uitgeven aan wapens dan de Russen (zie fragment [link.mp4]) #RaoulHedebouw #PVDA #deafspraak #deafspraakopvrijdag #Rusland /1

Woo, the post is on Data Elixir! It's a really great data science newsletter if you are looking for one! dataelixir.com

I wrote a blogpost on clustering respondents within households, and how you can derive a simple rule of thumb for estimating the effect that has on standard errors. open.substack.com/pub/istvanha... #DataScience #Statistics #Survey #Methodology

I wrote a short LinkedIn article about the Law of Truely Large Numbers (not to be confused with the law of large numbers), Bart De Wever and Ordinal variables. Enjoy! lnkd.in/ehKjiFmS #DataScience #Politics #BDW #Belgium

I wrote a short LinkedIn article about the Law of Truely Large Numbers (not to be confused with the law of large numbers), Bart De Wever and Ordinal variables. Enjoy! lnkd.in/ehKjiFmS #DataScience #Politics #BDW #Belgium

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 💀Oct 25, 1914 Wilhelm Lexis died in Gottingen, Germany 🇩🇪 1875: The Lexis diagram, showing relations among age (cohort), calendar time, and life spans of individuals simultaneously. Revolutionized demography, making key variables visible

ggplot(data, aes(x,y)) + geom_jitter(velocity = units(17000, "mph")) help, my data is stuck in LEO #RStats #ggplot #dataviz

Niet echt verrassend, al maakt deze visualisatie het wel heel zichtbaar: het electoraat van #Ecolo-#Groen en #VlaamsBelang is op leeftijd, inkomensdeciel, cultureel en economisch links-rechts bijna elkaars spiegelbeeld. #DeStemming #DS2025 #WorkInProgress

There seems to be no effect of age on perceived suitability of Bart De Wever as Prime Minister in function of age, until about 50, after that there's a strong positive effect (this is a 0-10 point scale). #DeStemming #BartDeWever #DataScience #WorkInProgress

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Ben geen grote fan van De Wever, maar een zwak leider is hij allerminst. Mijn sympathie voor hem stijgt zowaar. #DeWever #Netanyahu #Israel #Gaza

I have a slide about an unusual data request I once got: can we show that song choruses are appearing earlier due to the economics of streaming (gotta hook people in early to get paid)? I joked that it's not as if anyone's got a database of song structures. But it turns out that someone has...

1/ An optimist and a pessimist walk into a bar... and get roped into a 3-question quiz by a statistician. Closest guesses to the truth win. #datascience #statistics #rstats #mrx #stein #shrinkage

1/ Een optimist en een pessimist gaan naar een café ... en worden door een statisticus uitgenodigd voor een 3 vragen tellende quiz. Wie het dichtst bij het juiste antwoord zit, wint. #datascience #statistiek

1/ Een optimist en een pessimist gaan naar een café ... en worden door een statisticus uitgenodigd voor een 3 vragen tellende quiz. Wie het dichtst bij het juiste antwoord zit, wint. #datascience #statistiek

My latest blogpost on #substack: istvanhajnal.substack.com/p/the-kalman... #datascience #mrx #kalmanfilters #statistics #rstats

I approve. 8-) ajackson.quarto.pub/website/Blog...

My latest blogpost on #substack: istvanhajnal.substack.com/p/the-kalman... #datascience #mrx #kalmanfilters #statistics #rstats

My latest post on #substack: "Making sense of #OECD time use data Using median polish and non-negative matrix factorization to uncover patterns in time use data" istvanhajnal.substack.com/p/making-sen... #datascience #mrx #rstats #statistics

Went down a calibration rabbit hole 🐇📊 — here's what I found: istvanhajnal.substack.com/p/calibratio... #Datascience #statistics #Media #Rstats #Python

R-Ladies Amsterdam now has a YouTube channel! Our first video is @cecibaldoni.bsky.social's excellent talk about how to use @quarto.org and Closeread for scrollytelling science. This talk was excellent! If you missed it, check it out now! youtu.be/ytKZ357Xtqw?... #rladies #rstats #scicomm

“And she’s buying …a meatball sub to heaven” . The Bread Zeppelin sandwichbar in #Manchester

Ian Curtis mural, Manchester

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

This is in Hungarian, but if you are into poverty statistics or fraud detection, you should run it through a translator. Data analysts at UNICEF noticed some very suspicious histograms, and the national statistical office refused to release the source data

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Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

I wrote a short Linkedin article on the 72nd #Datascience #Leuven #Meetup. www.linkedin.com/pulse/highli...

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

Interesting read. mediatedmessages.substack.com/p/what-my-ar...

Olaf Scholz mocked British railways over “broken tracks and bad trains”, claiming that "nothing works any more” in the UK. Turns out: Germany rail problems have become so bad that Deutsche Bahn long-distance service is less punctual than even the worst operator in Britain. www.ft.com/content/d3b6...

Weetje: Churchill was tijdens WOII premier met een parlement dat verkozen was in 1935.