We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email ...

From time to time I receive emails from people trying to extract tabular data from PDFs. I'm fine with that and I'm glad to help. However, some people think that pdftabextract is some kind of magic ...

Abstract: Data-driven Quality of Experience (QoE) modeling using Machine Learning (ML) is a key enabler for future communication networks as it allows accelerated and unbiased QoE modeling while ...

Three years ago Zoom settled with the FTC over a claim of deceptive marketing around security claims, having been accused of overstating the strength of the encryption it offered. Now the ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...

Chile has outlined plans to require miners in the country to increase traceability, slash water use amid a prolonged drought, and bolster the diversity of their leadership in a mining policy blueprint ...