Excellent data set & web map from the Economic Policy Institute: The Family Budget Map. This map shows (by county) the cost-of-living for a 'normal' two-parent, two-child family broken down into housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities.
Even better: the data are accessible as MS Excel!
ToolUniverse is a unified ecosystem that transforms any large language model (LLM)—open or closed—into a powerful AI scientist. By standardizing how LLMs identify and call tools, it integrates over 600 scientific resources, including machine learning models, datasets, APIs, and analysis packages.
With its AI-Tool Interaction Protocol, ToolUniverse provides a common interface for seamless communication between LLMs and tools, ensuring compatibility across platforms such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, and open-source models.
More over here: ToolUniverse Documentation
Destination Earth is a lot of world salad at this time, but it seems to be EU version of an AI-based Digital Twin currently called DestinE. Very clever!
Probability of Success is a nicely-done interactive animation/explanation of an important statistical concept: If there’s a chance, with enough tries, you approach near certainty. Or: the house always wins!
The Starter Guide For Transitioning Your Python Projects To R walks you through the differences between Python and R and includes a nice tutorial.
It does not get better than this: Introduction to Data Science - Data Analysis and Prediction Algorithms with R.
Awesome: Introduction to Probability for Data Science (read online, watch the videos, exercises, solutions, and a PDF download).
Here's nice tutorial introducing some of the time-series forecasting cools combined with space-time cubes using NetCDF data: Looking to the future: Using GIS to model and predict population. This example uses county-based population data, could be used just as well for grid-based climate model outputs or other gridded data.
