RE: https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/116542832779822915

"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. It's the internet I was promised in 1996."

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language.

For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50":

https://blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s-at-50/index.html

Line charts may be a popular and straightforward chart type, but there's still a lot one can do to improve them! When it comes to presidential approval ratings, colors, averages, and annotations can make all the difference. 🎨 🪧 📈

Find out how Datawrapper's co-founder and visual journalist, Gregor Aisch (@gka), improved a colleague's line chart:

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/fix-my-chart-approval-ratings

"The zero coordinate point of the Swiss National Survey LV95"... in Madeira.

A friend having some holidays in Madeira found this: a mark for the 0,0 of the Swiss CRS.
(Well, the zero is on the sea, but not that far ;)

https://www.swissinfopool.com/zero_LV95/

#swisstopo #madeira #switzerland

Studien: Stadtbäume können Verkehrsemissionen kompensieren

Zwei Studien zeigen, dass Stadtgrün große Mengen Kohlenstoff absorbiert und städtische CO2-Emissionen verringert. An manchen Sommertagen speichern die Bäume mehr als die Autos in die Luft pusten. Von Jan Kerckhoff.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/gruenflaechen-stadt-co2-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Grünflächen #Stadt #CO2

🌍 Die 30. FH-DGGV-Tagung steht an!

Während der FH-DGGV-Tagung treffen sich Fachleute aus Hydrogeologie, Geowissenschaften und Wasserforschung, um aktuelle Entwicklungen und Forschungsergebnisse auszutauschen.

Solche Veranstaltungen fördern den Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft, Behörden und Praxis und helfen enorm dabei, neue Erkenntnisse für den Schutz unserer Wasserressourcen nutzbar zu machen.

👉 https://tagung2026.fh-dggv.de/

#Hydrogeologie #Grundwasser #Wasserforschung #umweltinfo