#statstab #326 Visualization in academic writing, by {Experimentology}
Thoughts: Good data visualization is just as important in clear academic writing as the text itself.
#dataviz #plots #academia #academicwriting #reporting
#writing #guide #tutorial
#statstab #325 Writing academic papers, by {Experimentology}
Thoughts: Missed Friday, so posting two #statstab on writing academic papers, as it's dissertation season!
#writing #academicwriting #reporting #guide #advice #academia #ebook
We set out to change that, through legal reporting that gives you options on your rights in the #Trump era.
Here’s our promise to you: action-oriented #reporting.
That means informing you about your powers, whether it’s protests, petitions, town halls, or the courts.
Witnessing the recent progress in Science:
#news #reporting #journalism #science #futurism
"There are several overlapping groups of people who, probably for different reasons, are more likely to prefer news that shares their point of view:
(a) the ideological and politically engaged;
(b) young people, especially those who rely mainly on social media for news;
(c) women; and
(d) less socioeconomically advantaged groups."
"In markets dominated by fewer brands — often publicly funded ones such as the BBC — respondents in that market also tend to express higher levels of preference for impartiality." In Britain, where respondents use an average of four news brands, the lowest number across the 40 countries studied, 62% of respondents say they prefer news displaying no point of view.
Camila Mont'Alverne et al, 2025: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23816
US tells government employees to report on one another for "anti-Christian bias"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/state-report-anti-christian-bias-033535
The #AP Fund for #Journalism (APFJ) announces pilot program supported by #Google News Initiative to provide #content, #editorial tools, and training to ~50 #nonprofit #news organizations in the #US
I’ve been working on a pretty gnarly data a warehouse reporting problem for the past few days. It’s up, leveling my ability to do this kind of work. The tooling has always been so limited and I am beginning to understand it is me who is limited in the understanding of the tooling ecosystem.
There may or may not be a wonderful overlap of programming and data warehousing but it’s clear that me not being aware of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) has ceased #publishing after 36 years, and is in talks to turn over its #archives to the Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
https://www.cjr.org/news/center-for-public-integrity-shutting-down.php
"Buried in the messages between National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other cabinet members is a horrible demonstration of narrative engineering.
"While the legacy media fixates on ‘classified information’, the real story is actually not the incompetence of these people but instead how they casually discussed spinning the bombing of Yemen—an already battered and famine-ravaged nation—into a palatable story for the American and global public. Let’s have a look":
https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/how-to-sell-a-massacre by Deaglan O'Mulrooney 
@anti@social.seattle.wa.us
DO NOT START WITH THIS ELECTION PROCESS NONSENSE!
#BLOCKING and #Reporting The #BOT/TROLL
Opened account Nov 2022. and has 7 followers.
We are nearing an election
Sleeper Account designed to interfere with our election
As good as journalism gets in America, well worth visiting, following, donating, and watch for jobs too.
ProPublica: How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations. “When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify ‘woke’ themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.”
Russia loses big on Pokrovsk. Again.
Putin’s bluff on gambling everything on the election of comrade Trump is starting to show:
Russia’s momentum is faltering. They can’t replace their equipment, and are resorting to fighting on horseback.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=izYirQHTH0I
#ukraine #war #reporting
#Gannett unionized employees and management have reached tentative #contract deals at 6 newspapers in #NewJersey and #NewYork after threatened walkouts
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"Political data site FiveThirtyEight being shuttered amid sweeping ABC News layoffs"
I'd love to know exactly when this was decided and when this was announced.
The polling data disappeared off the main site just hours after Trump's lines crossed into net disapproval. The main site was still there, but the polling was gone leaving the left column a bit empty.
A few hours after that the main page went away.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/disney-abc-news-job-staff-cuts-b2709447.html #trump #fivethirtyeight #polling #media #abc #news #reporting
1. If you're going to #report somebody you need to give #examples of what #activity you're reporting. Just #reporting a #profile and telling an #instance #admin that an #account is being "#spammy" doesn't cut it. Not when we can clearly see the user is not.
2. Again, not a very helpful report. You report a user and say they're a #SCAM account but offer up absolutely no #evidence to support your #claim.
3. Every account was new once, including the person that reported this one. As long as #NSFW #content is properly #flagged, there's no issue. Suspecting an account to be a "scam account or worse" is not a valid #reason for reporting an account.
4. Another report without any basis or #justification.
5. Again, another baseless report about somebody with absolutely ZERO evidence to back up their claim.
So here's what's going to happen....
The instances that forwarded these #bogus #reports to me, and wasted my time, each have a strike against them.
Strike three and we tell #Sharkey to #ignore any and all reports coming from the #instance in the future.
No #admin wants #BadActors on their instances, and no admin wants a #BadActor to make someone else feel unwelcome.
But you can't just flag and report an account for any bullshit reason either.
You have to give us proof and evidence.
This is not high school and this is not middle school. If somebody is being disruptive or causing problems, let us know.
But if you just suspect someone might cause problems or they might be disruptive... wait until you have proof and evidence and then let us know!
#FediAdmin #AdminStuff #administrivia #UserReports #FediReports #InstanceAdmins #MastoAdmin
AP Describes #Musk’s #Coup as ‘Penchant for Dabbling’
"AP (2/4/25) evidently needed e work of 10 reporters to produce “Elon Musk Tightens Grip on #Federal #Government as #Democrats Raise Alarms”.. “in charge of retooling the federal government.” Is tt a thing? #AP suggests we believe tt it is.. If u rely on #reporting fr #nominallyneutral outlets like #AssociatedPress, u might imagine tt’s only a concern of partisan Democrats, not regular folks like you & me" #journalism
https://fair.org/home/ap-describes-musks-coup-as-penchant-for-dabbling/
« In order to mitigate […] issues with #QuotePosts / #repouets / RPs, we plan to include several features in our implementation:
You will be able to #choose whether your posts can be quoted at all.
You will be #notified when someone quotes you.
You will be able to #withdraw your post from the quoted context at any time.
We also want to build a tight integration for Quote Posts with the #reporting functionality, to help people to feel more safe. »
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
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