ben
Data science + noisy music | he/him
- Increasingly my mental model of corporate LLMs and how they are being used is a less interesting version of I Am Sitting in a Room
- Scott is right — my numbers ignore this distribution to make things simpler. By my calculations, most people would get back much more than they actually put in. Is this trickle down economics? 💁♂️🦋
- In FY2024, NEH received $207 million in appropriations — its highest ever. Here's a graph of its funding trajectory over the agency's existence. In talks of efficiency, however, we should account for the real value of those dollars...
- As an elder millennial, I could trade my lifetime of tax contributions to the NEH for one month of Netflix and have just enough left over to get some avocado toast if I split it with two other people
- With most of my NEH colleagues, I was RIF'ed last week. It has been an honor to work with so many talented and dedicated public servants as the agency's first (and for now, last) data scientist. Here's some incidental and public software, code, and data that came about as part of that work:
- Currently running to test and it does take a minute, so probably don't wait to last minute if you want the whole thing... Also remembering I originally wrote this out of anger at the 2013 shutdown. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
- Higher Ed friends: if you need IPEDS and fear losing access with a government shutdown, here's a script I wrote that will let you download the entire thing (or select files) github.com/btskinner/do...
- Higher Ed friends: if you need IPEDS and fear losing access with a government shutdown, here's a script I wrote that will let you download the entire thing (or select files) github.com/btskinner/do...
