*Evolution of click farm fraud.* 1st generation click farm fraud, fully manual labour.

While you were sleeping govt published this. 👇👇👇 By 2050 we're going to need another 5 billion litres of water per day, 35% more than currently supplied, we don't have it nor the means to supply it. Now you know what 33 years of profiteering and regulatory failure looks like

The mood of the nation.

New book alert: 'Human-Centered AI' (HCAI) edited by Catherine Régis et al, featuring 29 interdisciplinary chapters and including 'Defining HCAI' by Shannon Vallor and a Foreword by Yoshua Bengio. More info here: routledge.com/9781032341613 CRC Press T&F STEM #AI #HCAI

Interesting as the latest news on the public finances is (deficit higher than exp in Mar) I find these kinds of charts far more interesting👇 Just LOOK at how much WW1 & WW2 cost the UK. Nothing, even Covid, got anywhere close. Well done Office for National Statistics (ONS) for posting historic charts like this

New book alert! Latest in the AKP Visualization Series, an accessible intro to visual data literacy for readers of all levels: 🟢Data Visualization for People of All Ages by Nancy Organ 🔗routledge.com/9781032301006 Background: linkedin.com/posts/nancyorg… Tamara Munzner Alberto Cairo

This could be one of the defining images of the 2024 campaign ..

Watch CRC author Marcus Hutter's extensive and annotated discussion on AGI below 👇 More info on the book itself can be found here: routledge.com/An-Introductio…. CRC Press T&F STEM Taylor & Francis #AI

My new book finally ships! You fear your math is not up to scratch? Fear not, over 100 pages are devoted to introducing the relevant concepts. routledge.com/An-Introductio… #AI #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #Math #Maths #machinelearning #ReinforcementLearning

📢#NewDHLpub "Ransom-ing D.H. Lawrence: The Archive and New Trajectories in Lawrence Studies" by Elliott Morsia 📚. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives, set to be released by Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing on 13 Jun (Ebook) and 11 Jul (Hardback). bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-…

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Hi #DIS2024, The book Making with Data w. Till Nagel Wesley Willet Lora Oehlberg, is on display at the registration desk with a other cool books and ACM gigs. Also CRC press edited a 20% discount code for the conference it's "AFLY02". #Datavisualization routledge.com/Making-with-Da…

Job alert for anyone interested in publishing - sales/licensing executive at CRC Press & Routledge Books: jobs.thebookseller.com/job/taylorandf…

👍. Discussing the creation of the ransomcenter and how and why to study Lawrence's manuscripts!

Japan has been collecting data on the date of peak cherry tree blossom since 812 See if you can spot climate change...

Attention #dataviz / #dataliteracy folks, check out Nancy Organ's Data Vis Book Fairy Project, which aims to get her new book (for people of all ages) into free community libraries! gofund.me/047300c2 Taylor & Francis

Very enjoyable review of nigel holmes's 'Joyful Infographics' by Neil Richards! It explains 'visual prosody', or how to bring joy to visual information: questionsindataviz.com/2024/09/10/how… #dataviz