I’m so glad there are people like Jake Porway in the world. The founder and executive director of DataKind gives his quick pitch on “using data in the service of humanity.”
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The wind was blowing smoke and ash from wildfires further up north from where I live. The sky turned an eerie orange. I wondered about past fires and made the chart below.
Here are the estimates from the Current Population Survey for the most recent time segment between 2017 and 2018.
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Based on bachelor’s degrees conferred, here are the fields that were and are currently popular.
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