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Drake is a new piece of software I discovered that can be very helpful for automating data manipulation and management. The use case …

I wrote this as an initial attempt to think through how one should approach life on social media in an age of political polarization. …

President Trump. I could feel my stomach dropping at about 9pm on Tuesday night when I read that Trump was winning the rural counties …

Political correctness is hot once again. Donald Trump is beating the drum against political correctness in his speeches and I suddenly …

I want to continue some of my thoughts on psychotherapy and politics that I started to discuss in Tuesday’s post. I’m …

So I have been thinking in psychiatric terms about a number of topics over the past few weeks, in relation to my own work in data …

When I first read the news reports about internet addiction in the early and mid-2000s I dismissed the idea. How, I thought, could …

So I’ve been thinking about a way to describe the enthusiasm about big data that has captured the business, government, and …

I remember reading a stack of popular physics books back in the 1980s and 1990s that proposed a connection between quantum physics and …

A comment on discussions during the DLF forum 2015. Does usability matter for providing access to library collections as data? As a …