B. David Tyler

Well, someone had to do it. Here's a starter pack for Graph Databases. bsky.app/starter-pack... I put a few accounts to get it rolling, but please chime in with suggestions to build a better curated list. #graphdatabase #neo4j #database #data

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Right after promoting headers but before setting data types, replace "NaN" as text. If it has already been converted, change the column to text, replace the values, then convert it back. 🧭Takeaway: Clean up problem values before you set data types, not after.

The Wikipedia community has built a tool that makes it possible to embed our interactive Our World in Data charts right in any Wikipedia page. I have always admired Wikipedia and all the people contributing to it. And I'm very happy that our work now can get used this way!

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Hello, network, I'm looking for an adjunct to teach our interactive visualization class next semester (virtually). If you are based in the United States—unfortunately we can't hire people from other countries—design visualizations with JS+D3, etc. and are interested in teaching, send me a message.

Can't we have both? At the Strong [National Museum of Play], you can engage with the toys AND read signage on the developmental psychology behind the toys. It's easy to ignore the signs, but they're available for those looking for the education.

#1 team in the country, playing a conference game at home. Tickets for $11.

So I see the state of applied psych as: - many people who are ready to run comprehensive studies and earn buy in via quantitative psych - very few companies (not just orgs, not just baseball) who are willing to allow multi year roadmap to show validity - fewer people who can outline a roadmap

Happy Pythagorean Triple Date Day

no LLM could hallucinate anything as surreal as literally everything I read about college football

Phenomenally simple application of network theory using a graph database & data viz.

The verb form of "jargon" should be "jargle." It even has historical precedent! PR Daily let me go off about the etymology of corporate jargon: stakeholders, wheelhouses, 800-pound gorillas, cornering the market and so much more. www.prdaily.com/the-origins-...

AI tools are getting worse, at least based on the predictive text I got yesterday

Survey Statistics: textbooks adding non-probability sampling chapters statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/10/20/s...

Turns out AI can cause more problems than it solves. 36% of AI execs at companies with $1B+ in annual rev reported an AI incident that led to data loss, financial damage, brand damage or operational disruptions. Major companies are now limiting employee AI usage. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We’re looking for talks that show how data—especially statistics and machine learning—can unlock insights to help players and teams perform their best on the field. For more info on what we're looking for and how to submit, visit: americansoccerinsights.com/call-for-abs...

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In 1995, Massachusetts got back 87% of its bottles for recycling. Last year it was 33%. The deposit rate hasn't changed, and that’s the problem. Next door, Connecticut doubled its deposit and the numbers went the other way. Full article: www.mondayeconomist.com/p/bottle-dep...

Boxscoregeeks.com is back!!! @nerdnumbers.com is also back to writing. Today he explores the NBA Billionaire's Club. Who are the highest paid players in NBA history (adjusted for inflation!)? nerdnumbers.substack.com/p/the-nba-bi...

The backslashes in "10\27\97" are wrong. The forward slashes in every other date make it infuriating.

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

lede = introductory section in journalism bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

This is an interesting look at the logo design process! (...if you can get past the corporate speak and your negative feelings about Microsoft trying to shoehorn Copilot into everything) microsoft.design/articles/mor...

I’m hiring for a new psychology and cognition coach! If you get excited about cool results like in this thread and want to find ways to apply this back to players before games, in the dugout, and after games, check the posting out here: www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-job...

The best way to get your work in front of industry professionals in soccer analytics? Submit a research proposal to the American Soccer Insights Summit!

You should really consider submitting a proposal, especially if you're a student — and even if you're not a student! We've had some incredible research come out of this competition, and I can't wait for more. Like last year, I will be leading the research competition, so please sign up!

Netflix costs $29 a month in Switzerland and $2.84 in Pakistan. Sounds fair, until you factor in income. Dr. Colin von Negenborn built a Netflix index that flips the map, this week in Nightingale. buff.ly/rcEN0KZ

I drooled on my phone while reading about this dataset

Just in case bean counters tell you "the expectations are much higher now in terms of how many papers you should have when you go up for full," well...we can of course check on that. (Keeping in mind that bean counting is not a great method)

A college football tradition unlike any other: A new group of users discover the national treasure that is the Hats section of the Campus Gear store in Evanston

Wondering if you can outsource your data viz work to ChatGPT? 📊 I tested out a few different generative AI tools, giving them prompts to visualise two different data sets. If you're interested in the results, you can read them here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/gen-ai-... #RStats #Python #DataViz #GenAI

My list of data-related resources had a bit of a re-fresh recently! They're now all in the one site. You can still browse by topic or see them all at once! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #StatsEd

Interesting #dataviz. Normally, we see something like a single mean with CIs, but these charts report the range as the metric. I.e., the full range is prominent. I appreciate this important choice to reinforce that the numbers aren't perfect.

Want to start with basketball (tracking) data or football (pose) data? Join the PySport x SkillCorner Analytics Cup. Checkout analytics-cup.org #AnalyticsCup

Our team just released our most substantial new product of the last three years, Sports Reference Hub. It's the most convenient place for you to follow your teams across our sites the way you want to. We have made a long-term commitment to advance & improve Hub. www.sports-reference.com/hub

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Why does this car even have a left blinker?