562: quantum of sollazzo
#562: quantum of sollazzo – 14 May 2024
The data newsletter by @puntofisso.
Hello, regular readers and welcome new ones :) This is Quantum of Sollazzo, the newsletter about all things data. I am Giuseppe Sollazzo, or @puntofisso. I've been sending this newsletter since 2012 to be a summary of all the articles with or about data that captured my attention over the previous week. The newsletter is and will always (well, for as long as I can keep going!) be free, but you're welcome to become a friend via the links below.
The most clicked link last week was Observable's guide to good colours for data visualization.
Last week, I was on the Geomob podcast to talk about the upcoming Open Data Camp 9, and London Data Week. Which you will all attend, right? :-)
Speaking about Open Data Camp, we have made arrangements that allow attendees to book affordable accommodation at the University of Manchester halls of residence. There will also be Ofsted-approved free childcare, and we are also offering bursaries for those who need support to attend. Please take a look at the blog post and get your ticket.
Speaking of podcast, the folks at Passenger gave me a nostalgic grin when they shared this blast from the past: me talking about user-driven transport data about 4 years go.
The Quantum of Sollazzo's grove has now 11 trees. Check it out at Trees for Life.
'till next week,
Giuseppe @puntofisso
✨ Topical
How online donations are fueling the election
POLITICO: "The revolutionary impact of online political donations was on vivid display in the last fundraising quarter, showing how small contributions have helped level the field between the most powerful people in the country and a range of charismatic candidates, folk heroes, ideological crusaders and people running in especially high-profile elections."
Mexico beautiful and burning!
A look at the increasing temperatures in Mexico, in Spanish and automatically translated into English.
Visualizing Games Industry Layoffs
Very good dataviz by Ben Oldenburg on Observable.
"The visualization is a work in progress. It would be ideal to load the live dataset so the visual automatically updates and I may add addition views."
(via Jeremy's Data is Plural)
How many IVF babies are born in the US?
"One out of every 42 babies born in the US in 2021 was conceived using IVF or other assisted reproductive technology."
Interesting also to see the geographic variance.
🛠️📖 Tools & Tutorials
Time-based CSS Animations
Here time-based is meant as opposed to keyframe-based animations, the more traditional way to deliver animations in CSS.
OpenStreetMaps, Overpass API and Python
"There are two ways to execute overpass queries with python that we will explore. One possibility is using the library and the other the library overpass-api-python-wrapper."
Domain Specific Dataset Project
"This is a project to bootstrap the creation of domain-specific datasets for training models. The goal is to create a set of tools that help users to collaborate with domain experts."
🤯 Data thinking
The limits of Data
"Data is powerful because it’s universal. The cost is context."
Of a similar tone, also read this article on "The Perils of Moneyballing Everything".
📈Dataviz, Data Analysis, & Interactive
Data vs. bookmakers: who will win Eurovision 2024?
Francesco Piccinelli: "A data-driven analysis of the songs predicts unlikely winners for the 2024 edition. Did DaNumbers spot some underrated dark horses?"
Interesting methods in this issue of DaNumbers, with a beautiful caveat by Francesco: "this kind of deterministic analysis might be interesting for a newsletter episode but could also be a giant load of BS." :-)
2024 has been the year of the diss track
This must be one of the most uncommon uses of a chord diagram ever :)
(via Joe Murphy)
🤖 AI
Machine unlearning in 2024
"As our ML models today become larger and their (pre-)training sets grow to inscrutable sizes, people are increasingly interested in the concept of machine unlearning to edit away undesired things like private data, stale knowledge, copyrighted materials, toxic/unsafe content, dangerous capabilities, and misinformation, without retraining models from scratch."
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