Brian Danielak @capbri@qoto.org

Some journals think I'm a great expert when it comes to reviewing for them but a terrible researcher when authoring a paper 🤔 🤔 🤔

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

We are dropping the Dilbert comic strip because of creator Scott Adams’ racist rant: Letter from the Editor - cleveland.com https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/we-are-dropping-the-dilbert-comic-strip-because-of-creator-scott-adams-racist-rant-letter-from-the-editor.html

Expanding Tidy Data Principles to Facilitate Missing Data Exploration, Visualization and Assessment of Imputations by @njtierney and @visnut #RStats #DataViz https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v105i07

This morning I'm speaking at Harford Community College's 2023 STEM day. https://www.harford.edu/about/get-to-know-harford/news/2023/01-january/stem-day.php The slides for my talk, Data Science as a Superpower, are here: http://amelia.mn/presentations/DataScienceAsASuperPower2023.pdf

According to my especially unsupervised K-means clustering algorithm, there are currently about 8 billion types of people in the world.
https://xkcd.com/2731/

Important web development acronyms

It's taken me over a decade to realize how significant a problem this is, but comparing GPAs between students with significantly divergent course history is idiotic.

At least in programs with a lot of course choice, a GPA largely measures a student's ability to pick courses in which they will achieve high marks, and punishes students who challenge themselves.

While I’m on about nice software, the @Iconfactory’s just-right iPad/iOS sketching app Linea was updated today. I like it. https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/announcing-linea-sketch-4-2/