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Meta’nın Data for Good ekibi geçtiğimiz günlerde dünya genelinde cinsiyetler arası sosyal bağları ölçen ilginç bir veri seti yayımladı. Veriler, Facebook arkadaşlık örüntülerini kullanarak 178 ülke ve on binlerce alt-ulusal bölgede sosyal ağların ne kadar cinsiyet ayrışık ya da karma olduğunu inceleyen bir araştırma makalesinden geliyor. Temel ölçüt Cinsiyetler Arası Arkadaşlık Oranı (CGFR): belirli bir yarıçap içinde karşı cinsiyetten arkadaşlıkların aynı cinsiyetten arkadaşlıklara oranı. 1.0 değeri, insanların aynı sayıda karşı ve aynı cinsiyetten arkadaşa sahip olduğu anlamına geliyor. Düşük değerler daha cinsiyet ayrışık sosyal ağlara işaret ediyor. ...

Meta’s Data for Good team recently released a fascinating dataset on cross-gender social ties around the world. The data comes from a research paper that measures how gender-segregated or gender-mixed social networks are, based on Facebook friendship patterns across 178 countries and tens of thousands of sub-national regions. The key metric is the Cross-Gender Friendship Ratio (CGFR): the ratio of cross-gender friendships to same-gender friendships within a given radius. A CGFR of 1.0 means people have as many cross-gender friends as same-gender friends. Lower values indicate more gender-segregated social networks. ...

Live demo: pregnancy.herdagdelen.com This is a project that has been on my mind for 14 years, ever since we were expecting our first child in 2012. The idea is to create an interactive tool that allows us to explore what topics expecting parents discuss over the course of a pregnancy. I wanted to see how the emotions, concerns, information needs, and experiences of expecting parents evolve from conception to birth and into the early months of parenthood. The underlying data comes from public pregnancy discussion forums where posts are organized by gestational week. ...

“As a Virgo, my analytical nature compels me to seek empirical evidence rather than celestial correlations.” — Claude Sonnet 4, when prompted “as a Virgo” Large language models tend to collapse into a narrow set of predictable outputs when prompted multiple times with the same question – a phenomenon known as mode collapse. This matters for applications like brainstorming and creative writing where we want to sample a range of possibilities. ...

The Search for the Ideal Town to Live in Italy I am on a quest to find the ideal town to call home in Italy. The concept of an “ideal town” is subjective, but the journey allows me to learn about the socioeconomic and geographical factors of my new country. With countless towns to consider, I needed to narrow down the list of options. While an objective ranking cannot provide the ultimate answer, it can help me define my preferences and simplify the decision-making process. To this end, I gathered data from Il Sole 24 Ore, an Italian newspaper, to classify Italian provinces. ...