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I just found a way to turn Excel data into infographics in 5 minutes

Excel's People Graph add-in turns simple tables into clean, icon-based visuals that automatically update when your data ...
CNBC

The brutal math of supply chains point to a market correction in August, says CIO

Kingsley Jones, CIO of Jevons Global, says the way the supply chains for fossil fuels and fertilizers work makes it relatively easy to predict where the supply shock due to the closure of the Strait ...
NPR

Kids' test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft traces Universal Print issues to Graph API code change

Microsoft says that an ongoing Universal Print sharing issue that prevents users from creating some printer shares is due to a Microsoft Graph API code change. Universal Print is a cloud-based print ...
New York Daily News

Reopen the Indian Point power plant

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently visited the site of the former Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County. His delegation came to see firsthand what New York Democrats left ...
Scientific American

Math Puzzle: Find the highest point

This task is an April Fools’ joke. In mathematics a circle is a two-dimensional figure and has no height. But this riddle isn’t about mathematics at all. Circles also appear in geography. The German ...
Time

6 Graphs That Show Where the U.S. Leads China on AI—and Where It Doesn’t

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The Motley Fool

What Does Purchasing Power Mean?

Purchasing power refers to the quantity of goods or services $20 can buy today. Inflation erodes purchasing power, making $10 buy fewer loaves of bread over 10 years. Investing in S&P 500 funds can ...
Quanta Magazine

A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...
The New York Times

Moon Duchin on the ‘Mathematical Quagmire’ of Gerrymandering

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...