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I install these 9 Python tools on every new machine

These are my go-to libraries for Python data crunching.

Excel’s AGGREGATE Fails on Arrays but Works with Grid Ranges

Learn why the Excel AGGREGATE function fails with arrays and how to fix value errors using helper columns or dynamic LAMBDA and BYROW formulas.

AI analysis of data from multiple sensors can improve earthquake detection

One seismometer is often not enough to reliably detect earthquakes or human activity such as underground nuclear tests.

We've Been Undercounting the Insects. There May Be Three Times as Many Species as We Knew

If we don't even know that a species of insect exists, and we don't even have a name or anything for it, we could be losing a ...
IEEE

An Efficient Calculation Method for the Near Field Distributions of Phased Array During Beam-Scanning Status

Abstract: Beam-scanning status of the phased array leads to variations in the near-field distributions, and it is costly to carry out exhaustive calculations through full-wave simulation or actual ...
Investopedia

Understanding Statistical Significance: Definition and Calculation

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. David Kindness is a Certified Public ...
PBS

Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s claim there's more than one way to calculate a percentage decrease

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. President Donald Trump has regularly said that drug-price discounts on his watch are greater than 100%, which isn't mathematically possible. Now his ...
STAT

The EPA just erased a century of public health progress

Williams is a professor of epidemiology and population health at Stanford University School of Medicine and former dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. What is the value of a human ...
The New York Times

She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It’s a Sensation.

The Danish author Solvej Balle’s experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders. Solvej Balle in her garden in Denmark.Credit...Giulia Mangione for The ...
The New Yorker

Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop

Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time loop, she is one half of a unit called T. & T. Selter. It’s a ...
eng.belta

Belarusian statistics agency to improve GDP calculation methods

MINSK, 22 August (BelTA) – Belarus’ National Statistical Committee (Belstat) is to improve its GDP calculation methods, Chairwoman of the National Statistical Committee Inna Medvedeva told BelTA. A ...
PBS

Firing of labor statistics head undermines trust in key data, ex-Trump official warns

President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report.