Charts can be social artifacts that communicate more than just data

The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the ...
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Town of Normal to purchase four pieces for planned sculpture park

The Town of Normal has approved the purchase of four sculptures from Illinois-based artists to be placed in the planned sculpture park near the Community Activity Center at One Normal Plaza, with ...

ICE detainees face greater risk from extreme heat than most prisoners

A Washington Post analysis found that ICE detention centers experience an average of 29 days of dangerous heat per year.
CNET

I Was Tired of My LED Bulbs Dying, So I Hunted Down an Expert for the Truth

That means inside every LED bulb are tiny circuit components -- and their soldered contact points -- which are far more vulnerable than the diode itself. The Lighting Research Center of the Rensselaer ...
IEEE

Energy-Propagation Graph Neural Networks for Enhanced Out-of-Distribution Fault Analysis in Intelligent Construction Machinery Systems

Abstract: In intelligent fault diagnosis for construction machinery, robust and precise detection of out-of-distribution (OOD) data is crucial for enhancing operational efficiency and reducing ...
People

Matthew McConaughey Says He’s ‘Continued to Study’ Running for Governor, but Something Has to Happen First (Exclusive)

"That would happen if and when it was something that I couldn't not do," Matthew McConaughey tells PEOPLE of potentially running for public office Andrea Mandell is the Senior Editor of Entertainment ...
IEEE

AuCoGNN: Enhancing Graph Fairness Learning Under Distribution Shifts With Automated Graph Generation

Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown strong performance on graph-structured data but may inherit bias from training data, leading to discriminatory predictions based on sensitive ...