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
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…
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/…
Distributed implantable microchips as wireless networks for neural sensing and stimulation https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1855768/full neural dust, neural motes;
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
OpenAI is adopting a structured "safety case" documentation framework modeled after industries like aviation and nuclear power to govern frontier RL training (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/towards-safety-cases-for-frontier-ai-training/
Early acquisition efficiency in visual-to-auditory sensory substitution: the role of structured learning https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1887888/full "structured learning was associated with shorte…
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…