NBA’s new “The Diff” statistic is catnip for dataheads like me
November 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
NBA’s new “The Diff” statistic is catnip for dataheads like me
Big Dataheads
March 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Big Dataheads
For the dataheads among you: This looks cool though I worry "Photoshop for Data" gives the wrong impression.
November 19, 2024 at 12:16 AM
For the dataheads among you: This looks cool though I worry "Photoshop for Data" gives the wrong impression.
These Ange-in dataheads explaining away the team's troubles as a result of injuries or a packed schedule or whatever universally ignore that we sucked at the beginning of the season too
April 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
These Ange-in dataheads explaining away the team's troubles as a result of injuries or a packed schedule or whatever universally ignore that we sucked at the beginning of the season too
Refusal to engage is also on the part of dataheads who won’t do the tiniest bit to understand human behavior. This is not at all hard to understand. Non-economic conditions are worsening, but since what we measure are economic conditions, people are funneling their distress into that.
This is essentially "crime is always going up" but from the left.
"You can't tell this young mother whose beautiful teenage girl was raped and murdered (by an immigrant, of course) that crime is going down, you heartless bastard" is just a straight-up refusal to engage with the issues.
"You can't tell this young mother whose beautiful teenage girl was raped and murdered (by an immigrant, of course) that crime is going down, you heartless bastard" is just a straight-up refusal to engage with the issues.
Nobody is going to poor people and saying "You aren't poor." They are poor. We know they are poor. We don't like that they are poor.
But for years the bulk of the American population has erroneously believed the economy is declining, in ways that it empirically has not been. That's a big mystery.
But for years the bulk of the American population has erroneously believed the economy is declining, in ways that it empirically has not been. That's a big mystery.
July 20, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Refusal to engage is also on the part of dataheads who won’t do the tiniest bit to understand human behavior. This is not at all hard to understand. Non-economic conditions are worsening, but since what we measure are economic conditions, people are funneling their distress into that.
how goes it dataheads, who up crunchin data
August 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
how goes it dataheads, who up crunchin data
paging @nilo.bsky.social and other transit dataheads
February 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
paging @nilo.bsky.social and other transit dataheads
One for the dataheads: our team at the British Academy have been interviewed by the Royal Geographical Society about geovisualisations, using data for advocacy and how *not* to build interactive mapping tools that cause your analyst's laptop to overheat 🙃 Read here: www.rgs.org/about-us/wha...
Mapping social sciences, humanities and arts (SHAPE) provision in UK higher education
Discover this new project from the British Academy, which maps changing provision of SHAPE subjects in UK higher education institutions.
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February 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
One for the dataheads: our team at the British Academy have been interviewed by the Royal Geographical Society about geovisualisations, using data for advocacy and how *not* to build interactive mapping tools that cause your analyst's laptop to overheat 🙃 Read here: www.rgs.org/about-us/wha...
I know there are a lot of dataheads on bluesky right now: here is my first draft of an answer to “What is the typical approach for storing large text datasets in the context of LM pretraining (and shouldn’t you use a relational db)”. If anyone has any deep thoughts or hot takes definitely come at me
October 29, 2024 at 8:16 PM
I know there are a lot of dataheads on bluesky right now: here is my first draft of an answer to “What is the typical approach for storing large text datasets in the context of LM pretraining (and shouldn’t you use a relational db)”. If anyone has any deep thoughts or hot takes definitely come at me
Proprioception?
Not something dataheads are known for
Not something dataheads are known for
April 27, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Proprioception?
Not something dataheads are known for
Not something dataheads are known for
Great podcast with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social and (my kid) Joe Dye on how to process the early returns out of Indiana and Kentucky on election night.
Dataheads FTW!
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Dataheads FTW!
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Ep 75 BONUS — How Kentucky and Indiana Can Tell Us If Kamala Harris Has Won on Election Night
Podcast Episode · Law and Chaos · Ep75 Bonus · 50m
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October 21, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Great podcast with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social and (my kid) Joe Dye on how to process the early returns out of Indiana and Kentucky on election night.
Dataheads FTW!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Dataheads FTW!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
A grim example, but textbook 減らす: deliberate, forceful reduction. And for the dataheads: 増減 (zōgen) swings both ways (up or down) while 減少 (genshō) gives you that beautiful, steady drop graph your boss loves in an energy usage report.
August 20, 2025 at 5:36 AM
A grim example, but textbook 減らす: deliberate, forceful reduction. And for the dataheads: 増減 (zōgen) swings both ways (up or down) while 減少 (genshō) gives you that beautiful, steady drop graph your boss loves in an energy usage report.
i assume that's why i often see people sleeping outside the library when its closed. dataheads simply can't get enough
August 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
i assume that's why i often see people sleeping outside the library when its closed. dataheads simply can't get enough
I mean, I see why this would appeal to certain stats methodology pros, but wouldn't it skew toward fitter-than-average dataheads?
March 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I mean, I see why this would appeal to certain stats methodology pros, but wouldn't it skew toward fitter-than-average dataheads?