Friday Quiz 20/06/2025

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How to use a histogram as a legend in {ggplot2} | Andrew Heiss Land isn’t unemployed—people are. Here’s how to use R, {ggplot2}, {sf}, and {patchwork} to create a histogram legend in a choropleth map to better see the distribution of values.

This is so cool! I figured out a way to recreate it with R www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

If spreadsheets are eternal, are BI tools transitory? – DataDuel.co The article discusses the evolution of business intelligence (BI) tools, questioning their longevity compared to the enduring nature of spreadsheets. It highlights how spreadsheets facilitated decisio...

been pondering what the future of data & analytics looks like, so I spent some time writing about it.

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STEM Educator Awards Shortlist 2025 Discover the 2025 shortlist for SheCanCode's STEM Educator Awards, celebrating the outstanding educators shaping the future of women in STEM.

I'm very proud to have been shortlisted by SheCanCode as #STEM #Educator of the Year. It is now open to public vote so please can you click bit.ly/4cpaZNm and 'cast your vote' for me in the 'Educator of the Year' category #EduSky

I’m gathering Easter eggs for Yorkshire Children’s Charity as part of their campaign to give chocolate eggs to 10,000+ disadvantaged children across the region. Can you chip in £2 to raise some chocolatey smiles this Easter? Donate here: www.paypal.com/donate/?host... #Edusky

I've seen a huge discrepancy in pay in job adverts for #datascience jobs in the UK when they appear to be asking for the same skills and experience. One will be offering 25K and the next 50K?!?

This image shows a person in a teal coloured t-shirt and black trousers sitting on a dark blue curved shape. Behind them is a teal planet, a white marker and a magnifier. The text reads 'Rubin Science Platform'.

Over the past 3 months, team member James Mullaney has been introducing UK-based astronomers to the Rubin Science Platform (RSP). This is 'bring-your-code-to-the-data' model will enable astronomers to connect to a Data Access Center to retrieve and analyse Rubin data. Read more: data.lsst.cloud 🔭

An ONS Data Science Campus blog with an overview of the new UK Longitudinal Business Database (LBD):
datasciencecampus.ons.gov.uk/the-longitud...

Full user guide can be found here: www.escoe.ac.uk/publications...

I have previously highlighted the benefits here:
www.escoe.ac.uk/the-uk-longi...

I do, we use Lego Spike prime and follow the #CodingSuccess program @raisingrobots.bsky.social then we enter the #firstLegoLeague challenge

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Difficult today

I love it when they make a cute pattern, especially if symmetrical like this!

Head thinking in a speech bubble Image adapted from one by by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

ELIZA: the first chatbot to fool people
By simulating being a psychotherapist the original chatbot, ELIZA was able to fool people into thinking they were talking to a human. Compared to today's chatbots it was a really simple program. Read about it on the cs4fn blog cs4fn.blog/2025/02/22/e...

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And relax.... even with the snow week at the start this has been the hardest half term in my 22+years of teaching. I think my old body just can't do it any more

Fellow puzzlers, I am now doing 5 mini puzzles a day. I start with wordle, connections and the mini (from @nytimes.com). Then I do Tango and Queens (from @linkedin.com) Any other #puzzle recommendations? In particular #logic #puzzles?

These are gorgeous Lesley! My favourite part of the year is when these pop up

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Geography and sport always my weakness

These look great, could we adapt them to say Computer Science for the English schools?

New obsession with Tango (the puzzle, not the drink). Tango #122 | 0:59 and flawless
lnkd.in/tango.

I look forward to this discussion with @marymyatt.bsky.social tomorrow

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Very useful discussion today at the AI Educator and Research Symposium with the @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social about how we teach about #AI

Why teach computing in school: new paper published! - Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre This week, we've published a paper called 'What We Talk About When We Talk About K-12 Computing Education’ that looks at why we teach computing in school. Find out more about the different views on th...

New paper alert! What We Talk About When We Talk About K-12 Computing Education looks at why we teach computing and proposes four traditions for computing education at the school level : algorithmic, scientific, societal and design-making. Read moreL computingeducationresearch.org/blog-why-tea...

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