Excel is getting a bump in capabilities with Python integration. From Microsoft:
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Nathan Yau
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Python is coming to Excel
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Using cold lake water to cool buildings
There are buildings in Toronto, Canada that make use of a deep lake…
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Passenger planes flying too close
Sometimes passenger planes get a little too close to each other on takeoff…
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xkcd: Pairwise matrix of what to do in an emergency
xkcd has an informative reference for what do in case of mountain lion…
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Visual breakdowns of iconic hip-hop samples
Hip-hop music producers often sample from previous works. They remake, restructure, and repurpose…
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Chart Options for When Time Data Has Uneven Gaps
Visualizing time series data often assumes that your data points are evenly spaced over time, which is not always the case.
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Hip-hop’s influence on the English language
For The New York Times, Miles Marshall Lewis highlights the etymology of five…
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Shifting towards more hot days, fewer cold days
It keeps getting hotter around the world. Not every single day. But over…
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Supermarket provides AI-driven meal planner and is disappointed by the internet using it to output weird recipes
A supermarket chain in New Zealand offered an AI-based recipe generator, and of…
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Cultural Midwest, not technically
The U.S. Census Bureau defines the Midwest as the region of twelve states…
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Map of Lahaina buildings destroyed in wildfire
Most of the Maui town Lahaina was destroyed by wildfire. The Wall Street…
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Chart Options for When You Have Lots of Categories
A long bar chart can be a bit much, so here are simple options to make it less jumble-ish.
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Losing ice in the Antarctic
In this chart from The Economist that shows ice extent from 1972 up…
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Greenhouse gas from wasting food at home
Almost half of wasted food comes from homes, and almost half of that…
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Rarity of songwriters who are women for popular songs
It’s common to see singers who are women, but the people who write…
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Finding a troll’s identity
A troll kept leaving comments on a woman’s TikTok videos, so she figured…
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Save recipes to your email
Yums, by Matthew Phillips, is a quick and simple way to save recipes…
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Directory of date-me docs
Instead of using dating apps, some have turned to the date-me doc, which…
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Range of Possible Answers, Maybe
In Statistics, analysis is more often about finding a range of possible answers than it is about finding a precise one.
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Honesty research likely faked data
Research by Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino suggested that people were more honest…