Minimalist plotting for Python, inspired by Edward Tufte’s principles of data visualization. Maximising the data–ink ratio: remove non-essential lines, marks, and colours. Content-driven spines and ...

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The forecasts will offer a glimpse of the path for policy at a highly uncertain moment for economy — and the central bank. By Colby Smith Federal Reserve officials are scheduled to release a fresh set ...

MIKE ASHLEY has made a bid to buy Sheffield Wednesday worth around £20million, according to reports. The former Newcastle United owner is deemed to be a serious contender to save the Owls after they ...

Critical Role Campaign 4 kicked off with an unprecedent number of player characters—13 of them in total. So many players couldn’t possibly fit comfortably into one campaign… Unless it was a West ...

Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands. The technology alleged to have been used to execute a multistate, ...

If you’re like us, some of the most exciting news to come out of the Midnight alpha is, of course, the arrival of player housing in World of Warcraft. When it was announced that the Horde neighborhood ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut interest rates for the first time in 2025 and released policymakers' quarterly forecast of economic conditions that shows the potential outlook for further rate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Weinstein covers topics ranging from the Fed to the cost of college. Sep 17, 2025, 10:48pm EDT At its September 17th meeting the ...

Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. In an email sent to Tables users this week, Google said the app will not be ...