LAND OF THE FREE
Where Does the U.S. Government Keep Its Data?
The U.S. Federal government's statistical work doesn't end with the Census Bureau. In fact, there are 13 principal agencies that are key to data collection. Here's a list of all the data they publish (in API form where possible). - Sam Tyner

BEHIND THE SCENES
Blue and Red America: How We Built It
NPR mapped which things Republican and Democratic districts have in common (craft breweries, museums, and Amtrak). This post dives into the process behind that project. - NPR Visuals Team

ONE MODEL TO RULE THEM ALL
Beating the State-of-the-art in NLP With HMTL
Learn how Multi-Task Learning—a general method in which a single architecture is trained towards learning several different tasks at the same time—can be applied to natural language processing. - Hugging Face

UNDER THE RADAR
The Lesser Known Stars of the Tidyverse
A walkthrough of how to use some more obscure R packages and functions in exploratory analysis. - Hooked on Data

DOSE OF SKEPTICISM
Public Attitudes Toward Computer Algorithms
“58% of Americans feel that computer programs will always reflect some level of human bias – although 40% think these programs can be designed in a way that is bias-free.” - Pew Research Center