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In the second quarter, Coinbase did not meet Wall Street’s expectations. This decline occurred alongside lower market volatility, despite BTC prices reaching record highs according to Kaiko Research. The chart below indicates that the market priced the aforementioned from August. We can observe a negative decoupling between the Bitcoin ...

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I’m going to discuss some horrifying ideas in this post, so let’s begin with some good news! I’ve previously studied tech layoffs. According to my main source of data layoffs.fyi, the weekly number of layoffs has been steadily declining. In the US, th...

Morgan Stanley analysts believe that the One Big Beautiful Bill will be a boon for Big Tech, as it will provide a cash influx to AI giants, thereby enhancing their dominance in future AI competitions. But Trump’s 1 August tariffs, which compensate for tax cuts in the aforementioned bill, seemed ...

Time to finally patch a hole in the leaky roof of my knowledge: what are Generalised Linear Models anyway? Groundwork: what are Linear Models anyway? Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) are a short step from Linear Models, provided you have the ri...

In this blog post, we are going to use data from the {gapminder} R package, along with global spatial boundaries from ‘opendatasoft’. We are going to plot the life expectancy of each country in the Americas and animate it to see the changes from ...

Forwards members Heather Turner and Ella Kaye were invited to attend the “Data Science for Girls” open event hosted by R-Girls at Green Oak Academy, Birmingham, UK on July 9 2025. They joined other guests from Ascent and Health Data Research UK...

In June, one hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in twenty-one categories: AI, Chess, Computational Methods, Data, Decision Analysis, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Genomics, Linguistics, Machine Learning...

In this week’s episode of the “Hidden Monads in R” series, I’ll explore the vector aspect of R data structures, and see how the flatmap operation can be quite useful. Flatmap? Aren’t all maps flat? The Nobel Prize organis...

1. Introduction 1.1. The use of AI agents and the case for “prompt” choices We introduced the use of the AI pair programmer, Copilot, while working with tidyverse. In this post, we walk the reader through the fundamental driver of successfully...