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Frank Corso
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Data scientist and software founder who dabbles in game development and biology.
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frankcorso.me • Gainesville, FL
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scientificdiscovery.dev
I'm surprised I only came across it now, but this review on improving communication in data visualization is excellent.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works - Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah, Jeffrey M. Zacks, Jessica Hullman, 2021
Effectively designed data visualizations allow viewers to use their powerful visual systems to understand patterns in data across science, education, health, an...
journals.sagepub.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
fpcorso.bsky.social
I released a new dataset this week: U.S. Congress Members. This includes all active members in the Senate and the House, their state, party, birth year, number of bills sponsored, etc... You can check it out here: www.kaggle.com/datasets/fra...

#Dataset #DataAnalysis
US Congress Members
All current members of the U.S. Congress
www.kaggle.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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themajichan.bsky.social
Woah woah woah something sick happened this morning - Momento's demo is finally out in the wild! 😍✨

store.steampowered.com/app/4145800/...
Momento Demo on Steam
Momento is a cozy room decorator with a twist: the choices you make play out over the course of a lifetime! Decorate your room, choose which items are important to you, and discover how the objects yo...
store.steampowered.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
fpcorso.bsky.social
I’ve been playing through New Super Lucky’s Tale on the Switch and I’m loving some of the completely random scenes and levels it has.
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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ethangach.bsky.social
Kotaku wants to get in touch with developers about how AI is being used in your studio.

You can contact our tips hotline tips@kotaku.com or my secure email at ethangach@protonmail.com

We'll keep your identity protected and anonymize info so it's not traced back to you.
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
fpcorso.bsky.social
I was curious to know how many bills a U.S. Congress member introduces or co-sponsors. It turns out that most don't introduce new bills often. Many have only introduced a handful since the start of this term.

#USPolitics #DataAnalysis
A scatterplot titled "119th Congress Bills Introduced Per Member" with subtitle of "A look at the number of bills sponsored (introduced) and cosponsored by members of the 119th Congress so far. The chart shows that most members have only sponsored a dozen or two bills this year but often cosponsor 100+. Though, there are many who have sponsored over 100 bills.
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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johnbedwards.io
Great work here by the Posit team. If you give an LLM a plot designed to show a relationship, the LLM will extremely frequently describe the relationship it expects to see, rather than what the plot actually shows!
A barplot. The title of the barplot is "Models often report what they expect to see, not what's plotted" with the subtitle "With well-known datasets like mtcars". The Y-axis labels three well known LLMs, "GPT-5", "Gemini Pro 2.5", and "Claude Sonnet 4.5". The X-axis shows the percentage of plots each LLM correctly described. Each LLM scores less than 10% of plots described correctly.
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
fpcorso.bsky.social
I write a lot of web scrapers and crawlers for various projects. I almost always start with requests and beautiful soup, as they just work the majority of the time. In my latest blog post, I go over the basics of scraping a web page. Check it out:
frankcorso.me/scraping-web...

#Python
Scraping Web Pages in Python Using Requests and Beautiful Soup - Frank Corso
Do you need to extract content or links from a webpage programmatically? You can do so in Python using Requests and Beautiful Soup!
frankcorso.me
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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syeducation.bsky.social
This article is useful for a variety or reasons, and includes a section on attention checks doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Data quality in online human-subjects research: Comparisons between MTurk, Prolific, CloudResearch, Qualtrics, and SONA
With the proliferation of online data collection in human-subjects research, concerns have been raised over the presence of inattentive survey participants and non-human respondents (bots). We compare...
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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jtullock.bsky.social
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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weatherfell.bsky.social
Reception so far has been HUGE and OVERWHELMING, thank you so much!

I'm running on low sleep right now and I'm just one guy so it will take time before I can offer direct support and assistance. I thank you in advance for your patience.

Either way, I hope you're having fun!
weatherfell.bsky.social WINDSWEPT - OUT NOW ON PC + CONSOLES 🦆🐢 @weatherfell.bsky.social · 8d
Windswept - OUT NOW!

A 90's inspired collectathon platformer - tough as nails - and oh so cute!

You must help them!
🦆🐢

Find it on:
🔹 Steam
🔹 Nintendo Switch
🔹 PS4/5
🔹 Xbox Series X/S
🔹 GOG
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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timbojay.itch.io
Bubble Frog DX is part of Steam's Animal Fest! 50% off! Cheaper than a box of Twinkies and considerably less additives!

store.steampowered.com/app/3262600/...

#gaming #steamanimalfest #steamsale #Frog #gameboy
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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stephango.com
When you email issues to Obsidian Entertainment (the video game company) their AI support hallucinates and tells you to email Obsidian (the note-taking company) instead.

If the reward function is to reduce the number of touches in a support ticket, this is one way to do it.
Thanks so much for reaching out and for the kind words about the game, we're thrilled you're loving Outer Worlds 2! It's great to hear you're even trying to contribute feedback on the issue tracker. You've run right into a common security feature where disabling 2FA also requires a current code to prove you're the account owner making the change. Since your issue is with the Obsidian account system (for the issue tracker) and involves account security, this is something our specialized account security team needs to handle directly. They're the only ones who can verify your ownership and safely disable the authenticator app link without a current code. Please email their dedicated support channel directly right now at support@obsidian.md. - In your email, explain exactly what you told me: you lost access to your authenticator app, you used a backup code to log in, but you can't disable 2FA because it still asks for an authenticator code. - Mention that you can provide any proof of account ownership they need. The support team at that address is equipped to work through the necessary identity verification steps to get that 2FA disabled for you.
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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savannah.dev
Wooo, unanimous acceptance of 810!

Python is getting lazy imports!

So excited about this!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex...
PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports
Dear PEP 810 authors. The Steering Council is happy to unanimously[1] accept “PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports”. Congratulations! We appreciate the way you were able to build on and improve the previ...
discuss.python.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
fpcorso.bsky.social
Just published spf-validator v1.4.0 to PyPi. This version ensures support for Python 3.14 and dnspython 2.8. The update also increases its minimum Python version to 3.10.

pypi.org/project/spf-...

#Python
spf-validator
Validates Sender Policy Framework (SPF) strings to ensure they are formatted correctly.
pypi.org
November 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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pycon.us
The wait is over — #PyConUS 2026 is here! 🙌

The #PyConUS 2026 site is now LIVE and the Call for Proposals is OPEN! We can't wait to welcome you to Long Beach, CA this spring and spotlight the incredible work happening across the Python community 🐍

👉 Details: pycon.blogspot.com/2025/10/pyco...
PyCon US 2026 - May 13-May 19, 2026 in Long Beach, CA
October 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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frankiethull.bsky.social
R+AI is a few weeks away!

I'm excited to share that {kuzco} is on the program list 🦙

There's a lot of great talks planned, check out the full list here:

rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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alyssamerc.bsky.social
If you were at TwitchCon and experienced or witnessed harassment, especially from IRL streamers, I'd like to speak with you for a story.

Please signal boost.
October 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
fpcorso.bsky.social
This was such a fun read. I somehow started in the middle of the series so will read book 1 soon.
fpcorso.bsky.social Frank Corso @fpcorso.bsky.social · Oct 20
#9 The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
Book cover for The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai. Says “Every meal is a mystery” and shows a cat with front paws on a table looking at some sushi.
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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waveygames.bsky.social
I've published the date and Pepper Odyssey is coming out November 5th 2025. On a Wednesday three weeks from now! 🙌

store.steampowered.com/app/3622840/...

#indiegame #wishlistwednesday #rpg #turnbased #pixelart
October 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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paris.nyc
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job
karlbode.com Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Oct 8
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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savannah.dev
The stable release of Python 3.14 is out now! Go, go, go update! 🙌

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...
Cute illustrated logo featuring a pink/peach colored pie displaying ‘3.14’ (pi), surrounded by two snakes in blue and yellow. The design is encircled by text reading ‘r-strings • zsid • free-threading • support • sub-interpreters • REPL highlighting • note colour • colour’ in a circular arrangement. The illustration uses a soft pastel color palette with blue, yellow, and pink tones, and includes decorative sparkle elements.
October 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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lesliebrickphd.bsky.social
🚨 Position Alert! 🚨
I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)
October 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
fpcorso.bsky.social
This week in my organic chemistry class we were extracting caffeine from tea. After filtering and doing multiple rounds using a separatory funnel, I got to use this new device, the rotatory evaporator.

I’m definitely enjoying these labs quite a bit.

#STEM #Chemistry
A rotary evaporator device that boils away a liquid through pressure changes leaving the solute in the flask which is in the water.
October 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM