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The electronic version of the latest issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin is now available on our website. For this issue, we have a very special interview with Erica Klarreich. Erica earned her doctoral degree …

This week in Modern Plain Text Computing we put together some of the things we’ve been learning about cleaning and tidying data. Here’s a somewhat sobering example using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, …

Long-time reader Georgette A. found this chart from a Linkedin post by David Curran: She found it hard to understand. Me too. It's one of those charts that require some time to digest. And when …

Acknowledgements The code in this post is indebted (and in some cases wholly ripped off from) work by the glorious Finn Lindgren, who emailed me some code to do this probably a decade ago. Yes …

We asked user researchers about their role in making digital services accessible, recruiting people with access needs, and sharing best practices for integrating accessibility into the user research process.

Evolving ACE – sharing the latest news and pipeline updates with our community Our second community event of the year was held in London this week, drawing in almost 200 people in person and online. …

The emergence of a bird flu infection in cattle in the United States (US) in March 2024 was unprecedented. Until the US event, mass infection of herbivorous mammals with avian influenza had never been described, …

Everything that has changed since the RFC post for this feature.

I just discovered an HTML attribute I haven't seen in my 15y of web development — translate. If certain elements are untranslatable, you can use the translate HTML attribute to opt out of automatic localization …

Just a brief update here -- I recently had the honor of participating in Rock Paper Shotgun's "what's on your bookshelf" interview series.It's one of my favorite gaming journalism things happening at the moment, full …

This week’s Debrief features Nemo's lightest sleeping pad yet, a Blue Lug x Swift Industries collab, the 2025 Brother Cycles Stroma, Wizard Works Offcuts, two events to follow live, and more. Find it all here… …

A Nice Quiet Local On a bright November morning, Sekforde Street is London as Richard Curtis imagines it. A steady stream of City University students amble northwards, past the Georgian terraces of Sekforde Street and …

Principal Component Analysis, or PCA, is a fundamental dimensionality reduction technique using in Machine Learning. The general goal is to transform a -dimensional problem into a -dimensional one, where is smaller than . This can …

The Beano Super Stars was yet another spin-off of D. C. Thomson's most enduring weekly humour comic, published monthly for a full decade between January 1992 and January 2002. It was very similar to the …

If you’ve been captivated by the starling murmurations this winter, you may be wondering how many birds are in those vast swirling flocks. There’s no easy way to count them on the wing, but you …