fastml viz

Data visualizations. Also see @fastml and @fastml_extra for machine learning and data science stuff. Profile image credit:

[h43z @h43z]

"The average enrollee at a college where students have attempted to restrict free speech comes from a family with an annual income $32,000 higher than that of the average student in America."

[Pinboard @Pinboard]

That east-west green feature is not a river valley, it's been carved out by centuries of eastbound German armies

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

I've seen this movie before.

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

The price for natural gas in the EU (Amsterdam) closed on Friday at below 25 EUR/MWh and has basically reached the mean level of the last 10 years.

Just in case for those asking whether we ever needed Russian gas or Nordstream. We didn't.

#NaturalGas #Nordstream #Russia

[Eerik N Kross 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇮🇱🇪🇺 @EerikNKross]

Use of the word "fascist" in Pravda 1938-42.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Everyone talks about China's aging in terms of total population or working-age population, but it's interesting to realize that China's population of fighting-age men has *already* collapsed by a substantial amount.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Cases of desertion in the Russian armed forces have massively increased over the past year, according to Mediazona. In the first four and a half months of 2023, there have already been more prosecutions than in the whole of 2022. ⬇️

[Brian Tweedale @BrianHTweed]

If privatisation worked we wouldn’t have this.

[Cormac Smith 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺����️‍🌈 @CormacS63]

This is truly remarkable

What does it say about Ukraine that in the teeth of a genocidal war:

She has climbed 27 places in the last year in the ‘Reporters without borders’ press freedom index, moving from 106 - 79?
This is a country that values freedom👇
https://t.co/aNzNvqAN8I

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Summer is coming, and in case you have to spend time outdoors, you may want to wear the right color to keep yourself as much cool as possible.

This is a chart from a study conducted by Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies

[read more: https://t.co/Bw7uJS9udW]

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Does this chart suggest to you that the debt limit actually limits debt?

[Chip Lynch 👾🚀 @chipmonkey75]

I'm late to this #DataViz - an animated map of the top search term on Google's Search tracker for the last decade or so, but it's fantastic... #HighRez and updated versions on YouTube - https://t.co/E5PpBE4scR Nice work @AnalyticsV1 !

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

one of the most informative maps you'll see

the ‘true size’ of countries when not distorted on a sphere

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.

My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv

And some utterly damning charts.

1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

[Vladislav Davidzon @VladDavidzon]

America is a country in rapid decline

[Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1]

The last decade has been a pivotal one in the AI revolution 🤖

Cc: @ylecun @Scobleizer @erikbryn @amcafee @paulg @DavidSacks

[APPG on Poland @appgpoland]

Which countries do Ukrainians perceive as their closest allies?

1. Poland.
2. Lithuania.
3. Great Britain.
4. USA.

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

France vs Germany 2022: electricity by the hour.

In 2022, France's $200 billion nuclear fleet had its worst year of production.

Simultaneously, Germany's $500 billion Energiewende had its best year of production yet.

Here's how they compared hour-by-hour on carbon intensity.

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

Volga flowing into the endorheic Caspian Sea, it did not connect you with the World Ocean

Color = which sea do the rivers flow into

Dark grey = rivers do not flow into the ocean = relative isolation

Entire Volga/Kama basin including all of Central Russia is dark grey