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The Tufte Test: Teaching an AI Agent to Make Better Data Visualizations(old.reddit.com)
2 points by rhiever 6mo ago|1 comments
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by rhiever 6mo ago
AI agents can make data visualizations now. Ask Manus, Claude, or ChatGPT to chart a dataset and you'll get something back in seconds. The output is almost always... fine. Functional. Generic. The kind of chart that communicates data b
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by rhiever 7mo ago
In November 2025, AI coding tools went from “halting and clumsy” to surprisingly capable. Suddenly they could produce whole, working apps from minimal instruction, in ways they simply couldn't before. This experiment makes that shift v
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The November 2025 AI Coding Surprise, Model by Model(goodeyelabs.com)
2 points by rhiever 7mo ago|1 comments
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Does batting order matter in Major League Baseball? A simulation approach(randalolson.com)
3 points by rhiever 8y ago|0 comments
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Data-Driven Advice for Applying Machine Learning(arxiv.org)
1 points by rhiever 9y ago|0 comments
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Automated ML Competition Announced: Can AutoML Beat Humans on Kaggle?(randalolson.com)
2 points by rhiever 9y ago|0 comments
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Computing optimal road trips on a limited budget(randalolson.com)
3 points by rhiever 10y ago|0 comments
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TPOT: A Python tool for automating data science(randalolson.com)
4 points by rhiever 10y ago|0 comments
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A Data Science Approach to Writing a Good GitHub README(demos.algorithmia.com)
1 points by rhiever 10y ago|0 comments
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Spurious Extrapolations: What if U.S. college tuition costs keep rising?(randalolson.com)
2 points by rhiever 10y ago|1 comments
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The correct way to use pie charts(randalolson.com)
1 points by rhiever 10y ago|0 comments
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What data visualization tools do /r/DataIsBeautiful OC creators use?(randalolson.com)
2 points by rhiever 11y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing the efficacy of vaccines(randalolson.com)
3 points by rhiever 11y ago|0 comments
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Data Visualization Basics with Python video course released online today(shop.oreilly.com)
4 points by rhiever 11y ago|0 comments
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TPOT: A Python tool that automates the building of Machine Learning pipelines(github.com)
2 points by rhiever 11y ago|0 comments
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by rhiever 11y ago
Coffee... lots and lots of coffee. :-)
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by rhiever 11y ago
Happy to hear it! I partly made this notebook to convert my coworkers and collaborations to a Pythonic workflow, so this is promising... :-)
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by rhiever 11y ago
Very cool - thank you for pointing me to this!
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by rhiever 11y ago
The native GitHub IPython Notebook viewer also doesn't support within-notebook linking, which can be fairly annoying when you spend an hour putting together a nice table of contents system.
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An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers(github.com)
174 points by rhiever 11y ago|15 comments
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The code and process behind the famous New York Times weather chart(randalolson.com)
2 points by rhiever 11y ago|0 comments
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by rhiever 11y ago
Here's another version that normalizes for births per year: http://rhiever.github.io/baby-name-explorer/ Enjoy!
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by rhiever 11y ago
I originally didn't smooth the data, but it looked way too jagged and crappy for many of the names. Ultimately, I erred on the side of aesthetics and sacrificed the ability to look up exact numbers in the graph. Rest assured, though, i
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by rhiever 11y ago
Thank you for the kind words. :-) Although that app you linked is a bit different - it's showing when names were popular over time. This app goes one step further and calculates how many of those people are still alive and makes a be
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AI for the Threes game(youtube.com)
1 points by rhiever 11y ago|0 comments
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by rhiever 12y ago
Response: https://twitter.com/randal_olson/status/561539109014241281
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Python usage survey – now with pretty graphs and statistics(randalolson.com)
1 points by rhiever 12y ago|2 comments
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A data-driven guide to creating successful Reddit posts(randalolson.com)
4 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments
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The biggest box office booms and busts since 1982(randalolson.com)
1 points by rhiever 12y ago|0 comments

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