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Trump says grocery prices are dropping fast, here's what the data shows

President Donald Trump has started telling voters that grocery prices are "falling rapidly," pointing to cheaper eggs and a ...

CPI Turns Messy as Shutdown Distorts the Inflation Signal the Fed Usually Trusts

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U.S. Inflation Slowed to 2.7% in November as Shutdown Distorts Data

Data collection issues skewed the latest Consumer Price Index report, economists warned, clouding the picture for the Federal Reserve as it also grapples with a cooling labor market.
The Atlantic

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair. For a while, everything looks the same. Each authoritarian milestone—the first political prisoner, the first closure of an opposition ...
Variety

‘Normal’ Review: Ben Wheatley Is Back in ‘Free Fire’ Form, Putting Bob Odenkirk at the Center of a Small-Town Standoff

The 'Nobody' star reteams with screenwriter Derek Kolstad in order to play an oblivious sheriff who stumbles into a suspicious Minnesota community where everybody's out to get him. That’s what makes ...
Bloomberg L.P.

BLS Says Database Lockdown ‘Normal’ Ahead of August Jobs Report

The Bureau of Labor Statistics downplayed a lockdown of its online databases after warning of technical difficulties in the moments before the release of the closely watched August employment report. ...
The New York Times

Why the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data

President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big downward revision as “rigged.” By Ben Casselman Graphics by Keith Collins and ...
The Conversation

When it comes to finance, ‘normal’ data is actually pretty weird

When business researchers analyze data, they often rely on assumptions to help make sense of what they find. But like anyone else, they can run into a whole lot of trouble if those assumptions turn ...
IEEE

Some Practical Aspects of the Relational Database Normalization Process

Abstract: Database normalization is a ubiquitous theoretical relational database analysis process. It comprises several levels of normal forms and encourage database designers not to split database ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...
Scientific Research Publishing

—Taking “People’s Education Press” and “Beijing Normal University Press” Primary School Mathematics Textbooks as Examples ()

In this paper, qualitative and quantitative methods are used to compare and analyze the content of “circle” in primary school mathematics textbooks published by People’s Education Press and Beijing ...