Intended Audience: Data science and computer nerds

I’m a dog person and a nerd. No surprise I eventually come across curiosities like the FDA’s page on pet food recalls. Normally, these are boring: Food brand so-and-so has toxic levels of vitamin D, etc. Sometimes, they do cool investigations on Chinese jerky treats.

TL;DR: There’s no good software stack that makes it easy to do any network analysis task, because we lack a common interface.

TL;DR: Plot is secondary to gameplay in most video games franchises. Epistemic Status: It’s media analysis, take it for what it is

Economist John Cochrane wrote a WSJ article where he – no joke-- argues that the US GDP per capita could be around $160,000/year if it weren’t for that damn meddling government. He argues that regulations are solely to blame for low economic growth with this sort of rigor:

A couple of days ago, I took the “Big 5” personality test on FiveThirtyEight, and I got these results:

People are not good at discerning bullshit. Everyday I lose respect for someone new announcing their belief in something idiotic. Actors are seemingly all either anti-vaxxers or Scientologists. Others believe in far-right conspiracy nonsense. A few serious people even seem to think MMT isn’t nonsense

Intended Audience: Anyone who’s interested in machine learning for text processing and doesn’t mind a little math.

TL;DR: A study tests 171 theories on a sample size of 900 individuals and surprisingly finds a “statistically significant” result. Readers digest accepts this result as gospel to write clickbait.