"If you have a period at least once every three months, it's okay." A doctor told me that once. Apparently, having four periods a year is enough reassurance to stop asking questions.

Missed the latest Pond session? Catch the full recording here and learn all about why context management is the skill you need to polish. youtu.be/BHD8Cv4PvrI

This is just disgusting. source: www.ftm.eu/articles/ira... Via @ftm.nl

Manually creating a Markdown table in 2026 feels almost artisanal.

Figure 1.2: The chaotic pattern of many data science projects. Super excited to be reading "Test-Driven Data Analysis" by Nick Radcliffe (@njr0), this image made me laugh out loud Read it, buy it: book.tdda.info/book/chapter...

Glad you guys are having fun :D

In Mechelen for #Dataharvest26! The best conference for datajournalism! <3 @journalismarena.eu I'll be giving a 30mn session on how to use #openrefine and a local LLM to enhance data cleansing Sat 30 at 4:15pm. Join me and @checkfirst.network !! dataharvest26.sched.com/event/feff88...

Cartoons from our Code Anything session at #Dataharvest26 ❤️ by Pieter Fannes Session slides here: datafrosch.fun/slides/code-...

Slides from our "How to code anything" workshop at #Dataharvest26 datafrosch.fun/slides/code-...

Monday motivation hunting 🤠 : Anybody that regularly works with TED, FTS(Financial Transparency System) or the State Aid Transparency Public Search? I have the raw #data on the server with a dashboard interface but can't find the time to make it available. Please reach out if it'd be useful to you!

🫘 Eating plant-based #food is one of the most straightforward ways to lower our greenhouse emissions. Agriculture is one of the most #emission heavy sector. Which is fair. We all need to eat. But not all calories eat the same hole into our #carbon budget. Read more: homolova.sk/posts/ode-to...

Confession of a former inbox-zero practicioner. There is so much freedom in this image.

Eight billion people cannot sustainably eat resource-intensive food every day. And we should not! Because #LegumesAreAwesome Read more: homolova.sk/posts/ode-to... #plantbased #vegan

We are also at #Dataharvest26! Together with Johan Schuijt we will do some guided toe-dipping into the waters of working with large language models. dataharvest26.sched.com/event/2K5O7/... dataharvest26.sched.com/event/2LSMq/... Looking forward to see you in Mechelen! 👋

✨ New essay ✨ A single plant family can simultaneously reduce #emissions, improve soil health and provide some of the cheapest protein available. It's legumes! 🫘 On how changing our #protein source can change the world. Read more & get the recipes 🍲 homolova.sk/posts/ode-to... #legumesKickAss

Curious about how to create #maps for your stories, articles, or investigations? Join us for a free session exploring how maps can strengthen #data #storytelling and analysis. Join us Wed, May 20, 2026, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CET via meet.google.com/vui-kziv-rbz

The AI's worldview shifts with input language. Read about the biases hiding in your AI-assisted analysis: datafrosch.fun/blog/bias-in... #LLM #bias

🤖 This is what local models in production look like. We built trends.datafrosch.fun. It pulls 24 hours of Google search trends, embeds them locally with BGE-M3, translates the non-English ones, and projects everything into a 3D map. We talk about the pipeline here: youtu.be/T75MvOq8wmg

Who is coming to the journalism festival in Innsbruck this week? Let's meet up! ☕ #journalismusfest

What you eat matters as much as how much you eat. Last Christmas (🎶), I was making chocolate bonbons (heart shaped 💛), which meant one thing: a lot of white chocolate lying around. I have to confess, about half of it never really made it into the bonbons. 🫢 For science of course! 🧵👇

Why do most restaurants serve worse food that I would cook at home? :/

Today’s air travel news? ✈️ Explore via trends.datafrosch.fun #whatIsTheWorldSearchingFor #googleTrends #itsfriday

☕ Grab a coffee and come talk to us about embeddings next Monday! How can you use text embeddings in journalistic research and (textual) data exploration? What are your experiences, or what would you like to understand? #aiforjournalism #llm #journalism #textanalysis

What’s the world searching for right now? Explore the past 24 hours in combined google trends and local news sources from 125 countries. Similar topics cluster together. Focus on the clusters or the outliers. 🐸 👉 trends.datafrosch.fun #dataviz #dataexploration worldnews #UMAP #localmodels

🔥 My first publication with Correctiv.Europe! Even as Europe’s overall population grows, half of its municipalities are losing inhabitants. Check out how your municipality has grown or shrunk in the past 60 years: correctiv.org/en/europe/20...

🔥 My first publication with Correctiv.Europe! Even as Europe’s overall population grows, half of its municipalities are losing inhabitants. Check out how your municipality has grown or shrunk in the past 60 years: correctiv.org/en/europe/20...

So I have moved most my coding to Claude Code these days. That does not mean I don't use other tools at all or that I don't think anymore. See me doing explorative analysis live on data I never saw before: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWnY... #AI #claude #datajournalism

My thinking behind dedicating a significant portion of this year’s Dataharvest Data Skills track to #AI. dataharvest.eu/2026/04/16/w...

✴️ We are live now! 👉 meet.google.com/sim-ieny-wfd

✴️ Reminder! Join me today, 14:00 CET and I will show you how to find stories in the data. No matter how big or dirty, I am not afraid! Live. Uncensored. Raw. 🐾 See you there 👉 meet.google.com/sim-ieny-wfd Brought to you by 🪷The Pond🪷 : by and for nerds in the newsroom

amazing storytelling by @ashendruk.com (check out her newsletter too!) www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...

Genius mumumelon.co

"... I want to remind ourselves how little we can learn about our society through personal interactions alone, and how valuable statistics are in helping us build the rest of the picture." ourworldindata.org/limits-perso... #statistics #data

You tried ChatGPT, and it gave you code that looked right but produced wrong numbers, and you couldn't tell why. Sounds familiar? Come learn with me! datafrosch.fun/mentorship #datajournalism

No matter how big or dirty, I am not afraid! Join me Thursday 16 April 2026, 14:00 CET at 🪷The Pond🪷 and I will show you how to find stories in the data. Live. Uncensored. Raw. 🐾 Community link 🐸 lnkd.in/dnurjfCd Event link 👉 discord.com/events/14066...

Fresh from the press: DataFrosch newsletter including 2 exciting sessions for you in April! Read it and sign up of course :) datafrosch.beehiiv.com/p/the-pond-8... #datajournalism

On September 23 1999, after almost 10 months of travel to Mars, the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter burned and broke into pieces. Why? Two teams working on the navigation used different units. Prevent catastrophes: with a computer! datafrosch.fun/blog/unit-co... w @goorden.be

♻️ Recycling plastic doesn't help the climate. At all. That's nor an opinion nor an Aprils fools joke. Recycling just delays incineration by a couple of years. The carbon ends up as CO2 either way. Learn more in the latest Pondcast with @goorden.be youtu.be/qE9GMVyRoEI

🧪 You don't need a PhD to fact-check emissions numbers. @goorden.be (investigative journalist, physics background and a wonderful teacher) showed us at The Pond how three numbers from the periodic table let you sniff out bullshit in climate reporting. Full session on Youtube: youtu.be/qE9GMVyRoEI

I built a tool! It's a little robot that makes personalized newsletters. Read about it here: datafrosch.fun/blog/rss-new... And try it out! RSS is not dead! #llm #tools #newsletter #rss

🦜 #LLMs "will sand down specific, nuanced facts (which are statistically rare) and replace them with more generic, positive descriptions (which are statistically common)." Great article from #wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

oh, frogs are mostly boys in children's books! I did not know 🐸 Source: pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

What I love about investigative journalists is the fun and conversations with smart, curious, and open people In a time when the world feels like it’s moving backwards, being part of a community that strives to make it better feels like a blessing datafrosch.beehiiv.com/p/the-pond-4...

💃 Just a week left to sign up! This will be fun 🐸 datafrosch.fun/mentorship

go Ireland 👏👏👏 "[Data] shows that the pilot generated over €100 million in social and economic benefits, out of which €16.9 million was in social value from audience engagement, and €80 million was contributed through improved mental wellbeing." www.artshub.com.au/news/article...

Especially for @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social ❤️🐸❤️

#Food is such an important part our lives. We eat every day. What we eat becomes part of us. And yet it’s being hijacked by corporations that latch onto our emotions and manipulate our biology. This is my plea for returning food in our own hands. hi-im-ada.beehiiv.com/p/7-eating-c... #realfood

#ClimateArena people: want to collaborate on an investigation or workshop a project idea? Don't forget to add it to the whiteboard at the registration desk. #CA25

Vind je het moeilijk om het verhaal in de data te zien? Wil je graag een vaardigheid of tool leren, zoals webscraping, Python of Excel? Of heb je hulp nodig bij het vinden, analyseren of visualiseren van gegevens? Dan heb ik iets voor jou: datafrosch.fun/mentorship

Al jaren waarschuwen ICT-experts, maar pas nu lijkt het besef bij de overheid door te dringen: Nederland is te afhankelijk van Amerikaanse techgiganten. Loskoppelen is daarentegen niet makkelijk. Gemeenten en instanties zeggen moeite te hebben met het vinden van ‘een reëel alternatief’.