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The Drying Rack · Jul 10, 2025

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  1. Southwest Beef - Tools for Ranch and Rangeland Resilience

    …studies the environmental and socioeconomic tradeoffs of Raramuri Criollo cattle, precision technologies, and beef supply chains originating on arid ranches of the Southwestern U.S.

  2. duckplyr

    A drop-in replacement for dplyr, powered by DuckDB for speed.

  3. Win for PFAS - The Lever

    ⚖️ PFAS payouts roll out. In a victory for community safety, chemical industry giants 3M and DuPont are finally chipping in to clean up water systems contaminated with their cancerous industrial byproducts. The payouts stem from a 2018 multidistrict litigation against the companies contaminating groundwater with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or “forever chemicals,” for decades, even though they knew the chemicals were toxic. The settlements — amounting to $6 billion so far, the largest in U.S. history — will help providers remove forever chemicals from water sources, costs that would otherwise fall to taxpayers, ratepayers, and investors.

  4. Sorry, I Can't Read Your Visualization

    Perhaps the most common color-related issue I see in visualization is that colorful elements are packed too tightly together with no separation.

    Overlapping shapes with and without borders, with black and white and colorblind simulated versions
    Figure 6: A simple white or black border around visualization elements makes it easier to distinguish shapes and alleviates visual artifacts of abutting colors.
  5. Vintage Weather Channel visualization for local weather

  6. xkcd: Tukey

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