Tan G.
@tangandhara.bsky.social
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Data analyst and data viz geek
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dan
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this is actually a very good article
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How LLMs Actually Work
A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop
https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/
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Zack Whittaker
about 15 hours ago
New, by me at
this.weekinsecurity.com
: Meta has filed a data breach notice confirming *thousands* of people had their Instagram accounts hacked as part of a months-long campaign abusing its Meta AI chatbot. Meta's breach notice shows the account hijacks were far more widespread than first thought.
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Meta confirms thousands of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
Meta fixed the bug that let anyone trick its Meta AI chatbot into resetting the password on Instagram accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication.
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirms-thousands-of-instagram-accounts-were-hacked-by-abusing-its-ai-chatbot/
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Byte Charts
about 22 hours ago
The 100 Data Viz Project(
100.datavizproject.com/data-type/vi...
), which I discovered last week while reading
@lisacmuth.bsky.social
's blog. It was particularly insightful as a beginner, as it helps you start prototyping ideas in terms of shapes and visual properties.
#dataviz
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#6 | 1 dataset. 100 visualizations.
Stacked bar chart with rounded corners. A strength of this visualization is the integration of numbers and years, which makes a legend superfluous.
https://100.datavizproject.com/data-type/viz6/
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Observable
1 day ago
Observable Plot hit >100k daily downloads yesterday for the first time! Literally âoff the chartâ! (Because we set the maximum of the y domain to the 99.5th percentile in order to occasionally give ourselves this satisfaction.) Congrats to Mike and Fil!
observablehq.github.io/oss-analytic...
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Stephen Turner
6 days ago
I'm going to try something next month. AI deskilling is real. I'm going a month without it.
blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-dry-july
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AI Dry July
AI deskilling is real. I'm going a month without it. 900 words, 4 minutes reading time.
https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-dry-july
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Neil Kaye
5 days ago
In the UK we have just seen extreme heat at the end of May with temperatures reaching 35°C for the first time, more than 2°C higher than previous highs. Overall the spring has been warm (in England the warmest on record), it has also been dry and sunny (except west Scotland).
#climatechange
#dataviz
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Chris Baraniuk
5 days ago
"we have never experienced El Niño on a planet already so hot from human-caused climate change."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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Prepare for El Niño, UN warns. It could be the strongest in decades - BBC News
Scientists fear the combined effects of El Niño and human-caused climate change could reshape weather around the world
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-54f4e985-a7fb-48b2-8246-f3be0d699402
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Kate Starbird
7 days ago
danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term âsocial mediaâ to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051261437487
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The full details of the Strava API changes and when they occur as emailed to registered developers today
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Hey,
#rstats
peeps, are any of you still using Github Copilot? Will you continue after the change to its new token-based billing?
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5 days ago
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Hmm, I wonder why the internet seems to be asking this question more than ever? đ€
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Hetan Shah
7 days ago
If you donât know about the dabbawallas then read this
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dabbawalas: The men who fed Mumbai - and are slowly disappearing
Dabbawalas, who deliver home-cooked meals, are leaving the trade as remote work and rising costs threaten their future.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c202d0l92weo
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Today was a good day đđœ
7 days ago
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Katie Martin
8 days ago
Did these guys write this?
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WarTranslated (Dmitri)
8 days ago
Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan leaders support holding a referendum in Armenia on EU membership or staying in the EAEU, according to their joint statement.
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I like understanding how ideas for charts come about and itâs interesting to read
@owenwntr.bsky.social
âs explainer on that local election chart I saw everywhere.
#rstats
#dataviz
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What happens when a chart goes viral?
Also: FIFAâs exorbitant World Cup tickets could backfire
https://open.substack.com/pub/theeconomistoffthecharts/p/what-happens-when-a-chart-goes-viral?r=267qy5&utm_medium=ios
10 days ago
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Barely slept in the last couple of days but Iâve finally made it to Kyrgyzstan!
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Soumaya Keynes
10 days ago
HAPPY BOOK PUBLICATION DAY TO ME AND
@chadpbown.com
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/soum...
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How to Win a Trade War by Soumaya Keynes
Find out more about How to Win a Trade War by Soumaya Keynes
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/soumaya-keynes/how-to-win-a-trade-war/9781035090181
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Not in Worthing anymore! A long stopover in Istanbul gives me a chance to ride the ferry from Kadıköy to EminönĂŒ
11 days ago
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Lisa Hornung
12 days ago
Accessing cash is getting harder. The number of ATMs has declined substantially in almost all Local Authorities in England in the past five years. Across the UK ATM numbers have fallen continuously since 2015. đ· đ One last
#Dataviz
for
#30DayChartChallenge
Day 11 | Physical. Made in Svelte + D3
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A lovely day to be on the beach, less great to go running along the beach đ
12 days ago
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Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95
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Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95
One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/26/sonny-rollins-jazz-saxophone-dies-aged-95
12 days ago
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Julius Kölzer
12 days ago
Okay, so the best way to counter far-right in rural Germany is just converting everyone to Catholicism?
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What a crappy evening out here
13 days ago
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Olivier Simard-Casanova
14 days ago
Current mood â and itâs only May.
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Thereâs so much going on here that Iâm struggling đ
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Mike Brondbjerg
14 days ago
Our "London Cool Spaces" map is (unsurprisingly) quite popular today...
apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/
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Cool Spaces
Cool Spaces Map displays indoor venues open to all where Londoners can take respite on hot days.
https://apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/
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Jacque Schrag
16 days ago
This is one of the cooler uses of a pie chart I've seen in the wild. It's like that sky/pyramid illusion, but with real data! S/O to Ceren Dolma
@datawrapper.de
for this clever
#dataviz
!
www.datawrapper.de/blog/twiligh...
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We made it - the sun is shining, a long weekend is here, and then three weeks of holiday đđ
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Associate Degrees Academie: Celebrating Success
Alt: Man closes laptop after checking watch
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15 days ago
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One of the all-time greats
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Guardiola to step down after incredible decade as City Manager
Pep Guardiola will step down as Manager of Manchester City this summer.
https://www.mancity.com/news/mens/pep-guardiola-official-announcement-63915039
16 days ago
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Jack Kessler
16 days ago
Heading to the park this weekend? First, brush up on the unspoken rules of sitting down. âïž
www.linestotake.com/p/the-unspok...
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Finally, we get some nice sunsets again just in time for the long weekend!
16 days ago
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Prof Andy Field
17 days ago
As already mentioned, I'm re-vampiong my youtube channel. Just dropped the first few R videos. I'll be doing SPSS and R throughout the rest of the year if all goes to plan.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Discover Statistics Using R and RStudio - YouTube
Tutorials showing how to fit statistical models using R. Accompanies my book Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/dis...
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEzw67WWDg82jW7syeZYGWKpB_ooDwf4I&si=LXjNqfbM47KIw5Kd
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Regretfully, my hate watch has failed this evening đ
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James Nalton
18 days ago
Down with this sort of thing. Time ticking down with not much happening is part of football and allows games to breathe and contributes to the peaks and troughs of a match. A stop clock is also just an excuse to add more ads.
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Evil Martians
17 days ago
Has vibe-coding turned into "doom-coding"? In this post, we try to untangle why AI burnout occurs and share work practices to preserve both our craft and our sanity:
evilmartians.com/chronicles/a...
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AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine?âMartian Chronicles, Evil Martiansâ team blog
AI-assisted code generation is not free. It comes with a hidden cost: burnout. Are we dangerously ignorant to this problem? And how can we cope with it? In this post, we discuss this question.
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/ai-assisted-engineers-are-burning-out-is-this-fine
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Fun data science side projects | Damie Pak, Mark Rieke, & Sam Parmar | Data Science Lab
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Fun data science side projects | Damie Pak, Mark Rieke, & Sam Parmar | Data Science Lab
YouTube video by Posit PBC
https://youtu.be/tFBDWLZpJuA?si=T97nkVjVxz-MSydS
17 days ago
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Posit
19 days ago
Weâre excited to launch the Posit Open Source website! đ Weâve unified 15+ years of tools, 900+ blogs, and 1,600+ videos in one place. Explore it here:
opensource.posit.co
Huge thanks to the team:
@cwick.co.nz
Greg Swinehart
@hadley.nz
@ivelasq3.bsky.social
@jeroenjanssens.com
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The Athletic | Football
19 days ago
Pep Guardiola will leave his role as Manchester City manager this summer, ending one of the most successful managerial tenures in Premier League history, with former Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca expected to replace him. More from
@david-ornstein.bsky.social
@samdlee.bsky.social
âŹïž
bit.ly/4tNfCYH
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MORE BREAKING NEWS: Guardiola to manage Birmingham City for the 2026/27 season.
#BCFC
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19 days ago
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Nicola Rennie
20 days ago
If you're a
#QuartoPub
or
#RStats
user, you might find it hard to find information about how those work with
#GitLab
. So here's a blog post showing you a few different ways to deploy Quarto documents with GitLab Pages! (Featuring penguins đ§obviously ) Link:
nrennie.rbind.io/blog/deploy-...
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Deploying Quarto documents with GitLab â Nicola Rennie
GitLab is a common alternative to GitHub, and you can publish Quarto documents that are hosted via GitLab fairly easily. This blog post documents how to do it.
https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/deploy-quarto-gitlab/
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bricabraque
20 days ago
Datavisualisations sur les villes jumelées en Europe et dans le monde (#TidyTuesday)
cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2026/05/data...
@mirbole01.bsky.social
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Datavisualisations sur les villes jumelées en Europe et dans le monde (#TidyTuesday)
Cartographie numérique, Géomatique, SIG, Geoweb, Bigdata, Opendata, Data visualisation
https://cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2026/05/datavisualisations-sur-les-villes.html
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Cuba Plunges Into Darkness as U.S. Cuts Off Oil Supply
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A Nation Going Dark
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/world/americas/cuba-energy-crisis-photos.html
20 days ago
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Canât park there, mate.
#worthing
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Isaac Arroyo
22 days ago
A ceasefire was declared in Lebanon on April 16. The data tells a different story.
@fadahjassem.bsky.social
and I analysed figures from
@acleddata.bsky.social
, UNHCR, and Lebanonâs Ministry of Public Health, and here are some of the numbersđ§”
#datajournalism
#datavisualization
#dataviz
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Giuseppe Sollazzo
21 days ago
Since the late 1990s, the dominant language of
#Eurovision
is English. But things weren't always like this due to EBU's language rules. Learn more đ
puntofisso.net/eurovision
#ddj
#dataviz
#ESC
#ESC2026
#Eurovision26
#Eurovision
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Jan Rosenow
23 days ago
In 55 countries, wind and solar generated more electricity than coal in 2025. 34 of them have near-zero coal left. Spain crossed over in 2009. The UK in 2016. The USA last year. Different grids, different politics, same pattern. Want more of this? Sign up here
janrosenow.substack.com
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Canât recommend this album enough, such a solid record
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Time Heals Everything by Blu & Exile, Blu & Exile on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 10 Songs
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/time-heals-everything/1883967654
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Georgios Karamanis
24 days ago
This week's
#TidyTuesday
is about twin cities. I built a scrollytelling map about Rio de Janeiro's 93 sister city agreements Made with Quarto and Closeread Interactive:
019e2679-54db-2e9a-2e03-8bbc8b92210f.share.connect.posit.cloud
Code:
github.com/gkaramanis/t...
#RStats
#dataviz
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Owen Winter
24 days ago
The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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