Mapping 200-mile formation of Chinese fishing boats

2026-01-22
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For the New York Times, Chris Buckley, Agnes Chang, and Amy Chang Chien…

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✚ Visualization audience types

2026-01-22
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If you know who you’re talking to, you can design based on what they know, what they’re looking for, and what you want to show.

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Word mentions in quarterly earnings calls

2026-01-22
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The Washington Post used word usage in earnings calls to gauge how companies…

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A decision theorist walks into a seminar

2026-01-22
This is Jessica. Recently overheard (more or less): SPEAKER: We study decision making by LLMs, giving them a series of medical decision tasks. Our first step is to infer, from their reported beliefs and decisions, the utility function under revealed … Continue reading → …

This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it.

2026-01-22
In a post entitled, “How Institutional Failures Undermine Trust in Science: The Case of a Landmark Study on Sustainability and Stock Returns,” Andy King (my collaborator on the project on scheduled post-publication review) tells a disturbing story of the failure … Continue reading → …

Using {ellmer} for Dynamic Alt Text Generation in {shiny} Apps

2026-01-22

Alt Text
First things first, if you haven’t heard of or used alt text before, it
is a brief written description of an image that explains context and
purpose. It is used to improve accessibility by allowing screen readers
to describe images, or p…

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