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Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at #RStats

GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.
Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends

Freehand, which builds AI agents to manage supply chain spend and operations for Fortune 500 companies, raised a $75M Series B, after a $25M Series A in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/transportat…

Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprises.

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Sources: Roxanna Scott, hired by ESPN in December 2025 to serve as the top editor across TV and digital, is out after a reorganization of ESPN's news division (Ryan Glasspiegel/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/roxanna-scott-out-espn-top-editor/…

Roxanna Scott Out As ESPN’s Top Editor After Less Than a Year
Roxanna Scott is out as ESPN’s top editor, less than 10 months after she was first hired to the role at the network.

A more detailled analysis of the OpenAI/Huggingface security incident by @… , not very reassuring, he notes:
"What's clear to me from this is that the very best frontier models, unencumbered by additional guardrails, will find an exploit if there is one to be found. The entire software industry needs to up its security game."

Raiders Poach Notre Dame Executive for Front Office Role https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jourdan-blake-notre-dame-front-office/

By World War Two’s end, little was heard of pre-war arguments:
that the oceans were our only necessary allies,
that Britain was done for,
that the Jews of Europe were responsible for their own troubles
or even that Hitler’s autobahns and aircraft factories showed his national socialism to be an estimably productive and honorable model
—one that would serve as a check on Communism and a glimpse of an inevitable new world order.

Book Review | Hitler’s American Friends By Bradley W. Hart
Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States By Bradley W. Hart St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne Books 2018, 304 pp, $28.99 Four

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…