2025-12-20 01:58:32
For the Wall Street Journal, David Uberti, Juanje Gómez, and Kara Dapena mapped 268 of the known ventures, holding companies, and products that the president uses to grow his network while in office. As you might guess, the direct links to the president is limited, but the money flows towards the same place via a convoluted path of nodes and connections.
Tags: business, family, Wall Street Journal
2025-12-19 16:54:37
There were murmurs that R was on the way down, but this year R rose back up from 16 to 10, based on the TIOBE Index, which tracks the popularity of programming languages.
Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and data scientists like a glove. As statistics and large-scale data visualization become increasingly important, R has regained popularity. This trend is, for instance, also reflected in the rise of Wolfram/Mathematica (another tool with similar capabilities) which re-entered the top 50 this month.
R is sometimes frowned upon by “traditional” software engineers due to its unconventional syntax and limited scalability for large production systems. But for domain experts, it remains a powerful and elegant tool. R continues to thrive at universities and in research-driven industries.
We’re back.
2025-12-18 22:47:04
The State Department decided that they will use Times New Roman instead of Calibiri, which was in use since 2023. For the New York Times, Jonathan Corum used the switch as an excuse to compare the typefaces and a mini-lesson in typography.
Tags: Calibri, Times New Roman, typogrpahy
2025-12-18 22:06:38
Hi everyone. This the Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members on data and charts beyond defaults. This week, we round off 2025 with a chart breakdown for one of my favorite types, the ridgeline chart. It has layers.
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2025-12-17 22:03:21
People seem more alone and isolated these days. Some of that is by choice (hello, fellow introverts) and some of that is from the time we are in. Given the season, and as I get older, I wondered about the time we spend with others and who we spend our limited hours with.
2025-12-16 21:37:55
The Washington Post analyzed TikTok usage, finding what topics the algorithm nudges users towards more:
TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis of nearly 900 U.S. TikTok users who shared their viewing histories. The analysis found that mental health content is “stickier” than many other videos: It’s easier to spawn more of it after watching with a video, and harder to get it out of your feed afterward.
Tags: algorithm, mental health, TikTok, Washington Post
