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Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half

David Robinson

An analysis of tweets from Donald Trump and his staff during the 2016 US Election campaign.

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20 ideas for better data visualization

Taras Bakusevych

A list of 20 tips for great data visualization, including "Always start a bar chart at a 0 baseline" and ""Pick a color palette that matches the nature of your data".

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In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia

Colin Morris

"Prize for least popular article of 2021 is shared by two articles which received exactly 3 probably-human pageviews."

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