Synthetic sampling uses models to "survey" fake respondents. G. Elliott Morris and Verasight compared real polling data against the synthetic variety to find that the latter is error-pr ...
Bots have crawled the web for a long time, but the past couple years has been something different as companies release their AI crawlers to scrape as much as possible. Cloudflare broke it down by t ...
A big promise behind AI coding tools is that they will make you more productive. You will be able to code like a half-human-half-machine, leaving all full humans behind to dream of your skills. Dev ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised job counts down by almost a million: The preliminary estimate of the Current Employment Statistics (CES) national benchmark revision to total nonfarm employme ...
For NYT's the Upshot, Aatish Bhatia, Francesca Paris, and Rumsey Taylor show how zodiac signs were determined by the position of constellations relative to Earth and the Sun thousands of year ...
NPR enlisted the band Bettis And 3rd Degree to sonify rising temperatures in New Orleans. As the temperature rises from 1980 to present, listen as the music tempo speeds up. Between 1980 and 2000,
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released monthly jobs data, but after the firing last month, some might be wondering how much we can trust future BLS data. For the New York Times, Ben Casselman aske ...
Jon Keegan of Beautiful Public Data highlights researchers who used lidar to estimate fire damage in Southern California. "We said, what would be a useful product for people to have as quickly as p ...
For NYT's the Upshot, Ethan Singer found the birth of pickleball courts in aerial photographs. By analyzing nearly 100,000 aerial photographs, we were able to identify more than 26,000 outdoo ...