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"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