Air conditioning is a vital educational tool. Students do worse when its hot. Over 13 years in NYC alone, "upwards of 510,000 exams that otherwise would have passed likely received failing grades due to hot exam conditions," and these failures delayed or stopped 90k graduations!

A #EEG recebeu nos dias 20, 21 e 22 de junho a 29ª Global Finance Conference 2022, sendo o grande destaque a palestra de Robert Engle, vencedor do #Nobel da #Economia em 2003.

.Hadley Wickham “#rstats is not a language based on the purity of philosophy, R is a language to get shit done” #rstudioconf2022

RIP // James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday theguardian.com/environment/20…

Those born after 2000 vs one from 1980😂

Many students starting out for the first time ask "Which stats software should I use? R or Stata?" The debates have gotten stale so I hired the couple on TikTok again to come in and give their two cents.

Can’t wait for AI to take over the world

DuckDB 0.5.0 "Pulchellus" released with persistent indexes, out-of-core hash join, new join order optimizer, and many other improvements github.com/duckdb/duckdb/…

O .Banco de Portugal organiza um Workshop em "Empirical Research with Large Datasets" nos dias 19 e 20 dez. 2022, na Porto Business School. Ainda pode assistir online, mediante inscrição. Conheça o programa e inscreva-se: bportugal.pt/evento/worksho… #research #datascience #bigdata

Once they laughed, and then...

ChatGPT’s current killer app isn’t search, therapy, doing math, controlling browsers, emulating a virtual machine, or any of that other cherrypicked examples that come with huge disclaimers. It’s a lot more quotidian: Reformatting information from any format X to any format Y.

Exclusive: Microsoft deepens partnership w/ OpenAI as it looks to add GPT to Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, etc. Big move with big implications. theinformation.com/articles/ghost… aaron holmes Kevin McLaughlin

1) Created an article using GPT-3. 2) Used Originality AI to detect whether the content was AI or human generated. Score: 100% AI 3) Prompted GPT-3 to rewrite the article "to avoid detection by AI content detection tools". 4) New Score: 68% Human

"In his white paper “Would Chat GPT3 Get a Wharton MBA?” published this week, he concluded: “Chat GPT3 would have received a B to B- grade on the exam. This has important implications for business school education." on.ft.com/3J4wlCU

tidyr 1.3.0 is out now: tidyverse.org/blog/2023/01/t… 🧹 New tools for separating strings into multiple columns, improvements to unnest_longer(), unnest_wider(), and pivot_longer(), and .by support in nest() #rstats Resharing Hadley Wickham's post, fosstodon.org/@hadleywickham…

"R is often seen as more approachable as a first language for newcomers from different backgrounds." - Kamil Sijko (Kamil Sijko) talks about revitalizing the Warsaw R Community in our latest blog. 📊💡 #RStats #DataScience #CommunityBuilding Read it here: r-consortium.org/blog/2024/01/1…

Eleições 2024 - Partidos mais votados por freguesia

Relação entre a proporção de votos do ADN e AD. Comparação dos concelhos do território nacional (excluindo a RA da Madeira); e os votos da ADN e da Madeira Primeiro (PPD/PSD.CDS-PP). A correlação é elevada, e maior quando a ADN surge primeiro. Análise sugerida por Luís Aguiar-Conraria

Dez distritos com a maior proporção de votos válidos em partidos que não elegeram nenhum deputado nesse distrito