Oli Hawkins
@olihawkins.com
Editorial data scientist working on computational investigations for the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times.
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Looks like me and @eadehemingway.bsky.social are going to be running a workshop on data analysis with @pola.rs at NICAR in March. Maybe see some of you there!
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Looks like me and @eadehemingway.bsky.social are going to be running a workshop on data analysis with @pola.rs at NICAR in March. Maybe see some of you there!
February 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Looks like me and @eadehemingway.bsky.social are going to be running a workshop on data analysis with @pola.rs at NICAR in March. Maybe see some of you there!
Reposted by Oli Hawkins
Grade inflation in some UK universities? Lost myself in cool dataviz in great piece by @amyborrett.ft.com www.ft.com/content/6935...
January 17, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Grade inflation in some UK universities? Lost myself in cool dataviz in great piece by @amyborrett.ft.com www.ft.com/content/6935...
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Weeks after writing about how the best ideas bleed btwn R and python, I find out from @stephenturner.us 's excellent blog that the #rstats world is attempting their own Rust-based analog to `uv` (for deps mgmt not packaging)
Haven't tried but neat to watch
a2-ai.github.io/rv-docs/
Haven't tried but neat to watch
a2-ai.github.io/rv-docs/
January 10, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Weeks after writing about how the best ideas bleed btwn R and python, I find out from @stephenturner.us 's excellent blog that the #rstats world is attempting their own Rust-based analog to `uv` (for deps mgmt not packaging)
Haven't tried but neat to watch
a2-ai.github.io/rv-docs/
Haven't tried but neat to watch
a2-ai.github.io/rv-docs/
This is an interesting essay on methodological weaknesses in computer science and machine learning, exploring the limits of trying to accumulate knowledge mainly by building things.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
The Empiricism Gap in Computer Science
So far, I have argued that there is a dissonance between, on the one hand, CS’s founding myths, curricula, and self-image, and, on the other hand, the modern production of knowledge in computer scienc...
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz
January 4, 2026 at 4:21 PM
This is an interesting essay on methodological weaknesses in computer science and machine learning, exploring the limits of trying to accumulate knowledge mainly by building things.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...
Merry Christmas from North Wales, which is bracingly cold but beautiful.
December 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Merry Christmas from North Wales, which is bracingly cold but beautiful.