Waldo Jaquith
did the bubble burst? or is this a seasonal pattern that just didn't emerge in prior years?
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=%2Fg%2F11f5jp5d4x&hl=en
andrew van dam
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Why would vehicles that are obviously station wagons and sports cars be classified as "light trucks”? @andrewvandam wrote about this in the Washington Post last April. In short, if you call it a "truck," the vehicle is subjected to less-stringent fuel economy standards.
The dangers of enormous vehicles are real. And, yes, many people drive enormous pickups for cultural reasons and not because they need a pickup. But it's not true that 80% of vehicles sold are trucks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/07/trucks-outnumber-cars/
DatawrapperWe just published a new Weekly Chart! For his first contribution, our customer success and support specialist Michi writes about speed dating — and what it can teach us about getting to know other people and ourselves ⚡
JosephMenn
yikes!
if you asked alexa about fraud in the 2020 election, the amazon assistant would say it was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud," @cqz found.
after Cat brought the issue to amazon's attention, they changed it. now it says "I'm sorry, I'm not able to answer that"
even though the correct answer would seem to be "no, there wasn't."
google home and chatgpt didn't have the same problem
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/07/amazon-alexa-news-2020-election-misinformation/
Beautiful Public DataThe Army's font is called "G.I.". The Navy's is called "Liberator".
The Army uses photos with "warm tones and natural light". The Navy photo treatment is "high contrast...with a subtle steel gray overlay" for a cinematic tone.
The Army says “...under no circumstances may a weapon of any kind ever appear, in moving or still imagery, to be pointed in the direction of the lens; e.g., at the viewer.”
Read about the Army and Navy's style guides: https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/army-navy-style-guides/
AI is eating jobs in India's immense customer-service call centers
Pranshu found a guy who already fired 27 customer service agents and replaced them with a chat-gpt powered bot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/03/ai-customer-service-jobs/
Jon KeeganHonored to make an appearance in @andrewvandam's fantastic "Department of Data" column today in The Washington Post. Andrew dives into my @Beautifulpublicdata analysis of all the license plates available in the U.S. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/29/states-that-produce-most-musicians-more/
Dstambaugh@andrewvandam
What I think of as "typing dyslexia," for example typing an L instead of an S.
What I think of as "typing dyslexia," for example typing an L instead of an S.
im fascinated by what typos reveal about how my brain processes information.
usually, it's phonetic, like typing "bounts" when i told my fingers to write "bounce"
but today i kept typing "gcew" instead of "qcew" in reference to the quarterly census of employment and wages, revealing there's a shape-of-letter component too!!
this happens to everybody, right?? what else have you noticed?