The Pudding’s lawn mowing experiment
We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.
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Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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The Pudding finds “The Real Kevin Bacon”
Demystifying the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future centers of Hollywood
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How many shots are in the average movie today?
I counted the cuts in 8,770 films from the last century to find out how many shots a movie has now, and how fast we are cutting.
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Surprises in time series analysis
Part of Time Series Connect webinar series Monday 26 October 2026, 6:00 PM Eastern Time Abstract I will present a statistical framework for identifying anomalies in three time series settings: unusual observations within a single historical series, unusual series within a large collection, and…
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Automating Oracle IMPDP Schema Refresh from a FULL Data Pump Export
This article discusses the automation of schema refreshing in Oracle databases using Bash scripts with the Data Pump utility. It outlines how the script accepts a schema name, locates the latest export directory, checks schema existence, terminates sessions, drops the schema if it exists, imports…
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TidyTuesday 2026/43
This week’s data joins starting salaries for 285 college majors with the AI Occupational Exposure index of Felten, Raj and Seamans. The index scores how much the abilities an occupation needs overlap with what AI can do. Each major gets the average score of the occupations its graduates tend to…
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Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Statistics
Hi folks, We’re all on constant voyage to better understand Windows Phone 7 and its delicate Consumer<->Developer balance. As part of that education I’ve download all Windows Phone 7 marketplace XAPs, performed analysis on them and am now sharing statistics with you. Downloading the WP7 Marketplace…
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