Cédric Lombion

Founder, Civic Literacy Initiative. Former data lead @okfn, @schoolofdata. Making sense of the collision btwn tech & society through (data/algo) literacies.

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@_TylerHillery @archieemwood @datajoely @astral_sh Also installed uv out of sheer frustration when I faced the same issue ahah

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@nicoritschel @JohnKutay Which competitors are you thinking of?

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@rahulbot @OxUniPress Looking forward to it!

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@mattbeane I stopped at 10' when it said "5 genres, 5 more to go" before suddenly skipping to the next paper. I would have expected more callbacks to the first paper being discussed while discussing the second one. It felt like I had to do the connections myself, which I find distracting.

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@jeremyphoward Clicking the link about Github actions in the blog post leads to a 404 page https://t.co/r5N1WMy72z

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Text is a summary from a section of a series of lectures (in French) by Alain Supiot, titled "Governance by numbers" (7th lecture). A companion book was edited, and it received an English translation https://t.co/wUsunYTawQ

Highlights from https://t.co/MmKAGs9FzY

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The rise of social stats led to two interpretations

— those using them to identify social ailments and advocate for change
— those twisting them into flawed biological conclusions in order to advance practices like eugenics.

(Alain Supiot)

The more things change...

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@mikecodemonkey @Linux_Mint I have a 2013 iMac that is unbearably slow at this point, especially due to the HDD. Would installing Linux help?

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@evidence_dev Would be great to have access to an RSS feed for your blog! Much nicer to follow product updates from my RSS reader than across email / social media.

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@mikorulez Useful insights, thanks! Any pointers on the tools / collaboration frameworks that you used?

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@matsonj Thanks, that's useful!

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@matsonj Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was asking if duckdb + evidence was not enough for this kind of pipeline. It was not about the choice of sql.

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One of the most inspiring sentences I've read recently.

Also thankful that this is much more than a lucky strike of brilliance: @adriennemaree has developed the topic across several publications—all promptly added to my reading list.

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@archieemwood @evidence_dev What I mean is that the philosophy behind Evidence seems to lean toward consuming the db and writing the SQL in Evidence, rather than generating a Datasette endpoint that I consume in Evidence. Or is it?

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@archieemwood @evidence_dev But reading how evidence works, is there any point in hooking it up to the API if I have access to the SQLite behind it? As Evidence stores stored and converts all the data anyway?

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@archieemwood @evidence_dev I've been using Streamlit to create small internal apps that consume a Datasette API. And I've been meaning to test Evidence because of how slow Streamlit can get while caching the data.

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@archieemwood @evidence_dev The user here is the biz analyst building the data-driven website right?

In this case an interesting use of llm would be to generate x different type of charts based on the same data to compare readability.

UI could be freeform or use dataviz grammar to help guide prompt.

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@ethanf_17 Is there a reason to extract and transform the data directly with DuckDB instead of doing it with pandas (or polars) and then loading it in a DuckDB file?

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@simonw That allows them to deploy quickly to demonstrate the use case, then find funding after. Sounds like a good use case for serverless to me? Though not sustainable for the platforms themselves probably.

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@simonw I had a meeting yesterday with a gig department that was responsible for updating a CSV data file but had not control over its publication, as another department managed the open data portal. I suggested Datasette + Vercel to them as a way to circumvent the issue.