The National Grid is the electric power transmission network for Great Britain

These platforms do not exist as a place for art to live and flourish. They exist as a place to flatten art into commodity. There is no context here. Instead there are small armies of lawyers trying to make sure a rich person doesn’t get fined for letting a 13-year old medieval music nerd see the Latin prepositional word for “with”.

A unified model for representing syntax trees.

What kind of society do we live in, for this to regress so sharply?

A tool from Google that uses LLMs to extract structured data. I suppose it’s quite reliable!

A funny (even more as it’s true) opinion piece by Cory Doctorow on metadata.

Very interesting way to avoid using Python. As a Python-hater myself, I appreciate this greatly.

Considering that ML is a pretty important field, and will continue to be going into the future, this is an option I have to keep my eye on.

Lots of cool little interactive articles and visualisations.

A UI component to view JSON as a table, that’s nice!

The Comparative Income Taxation Database consists of yearly data on the top marginal income tax rate for a legal individual, and includes the amount from which the top marginal rate applies, what law governs the taxation, and the source of this information (law or consulted literature). The sample included in the data set consists of 20 countries. The time period covered for each country is 1800 (or independence) to 2010. A country is considered to have adopted a modern income tax system if an independent government levies taxes yearly on comprehensive and directly assessed forms of personal income.

The Employment Projections (EP) program publishes the classification systems used to produce the employment projections. In addition, EP publishes selected crosswalks between these classification systems and those from other data sources.

LiveStore is a state management framework based on SQLite and event-sourcing. It’s designed for demanding applications and based on years of research.

Jazz gives you data without needing a database — plus auth, permissions, files and multiplayer without needing a backend. Do everything right from the frontend and ship better apps, faster.

Notes on Benn Stancil’s post in 2021 Tilt and tilted, about the objectivity of data-driven decisions.

Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane

Official WFS and WMS services for the city of Warsaw, containing a variety of data.

This is a list of external (non-PGC) polar GIS data resources. The list is a non-exhaustive, curated collection of repositories and datasets that PGC uses and recommends.