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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Record-breaking heat hammered the northern Rockies on Tuesday and smoke from dozens of large wildfires drove pollution to unhealthy levels — a grim but increasingly familiar situation for a region racked by drought. Unhealthy air was recorded around most of Montana’s larger cities — Billings, Butte, Bozeman and Missoula — and in portions of northern Wyoming and eastern Idaho, according data from U.S. government air monitoring stations. More than 40 large fires were burning in the three states, and smoke was also pouring in from blazes on the West ...

I’ve recently been getting pretty far into the weeds about what the future of data programming is going to look like. I use pandas and dplyr in python and R respectively. But I’m starting to see the shape of something that’s interesting coming down the pike. I’ve been working on a project that involves scatterplot visualizations at a massive scale–up to 1 billion points sent to the browser. In doing this, two things have become clear:

NationofChange A spinoff of a forthcoming book from Johns Hopkins Press about the value of the liberal arts. Last month, many disappointed applicants to the University of California received rejection letters, thousands of them, with 250,000 competing for 46,000 spots. Mary McNamara, writing in the  Los Angeles Times, voiced the dismay of parents whose qualified kids got turned down, pointing out that she and other Californians pay hefty state taxes. (4/14/21). But disgruntled taxpayers should know how little of California’s budget actually goes to higher education. Ac...

New RoadBotics Tool Allows Asset Management Via Smartphone The company’s new software, AgileMapper, gives users the ability to log an item by taking a photo of it. Artificial intelligence can then identify the object and add it to a larger inventory. May 05, 2021 •  RoadBotics RoadBotics, a startup that’s made its name offering a way to use smartphones to find cracks and potholes in roads, is making a leap into a larger class of software: asset management. The company’s new product, AgileMapper, shares a mobile focus with its previous work — with a smartphone, users will be able t...

AgileMapper from Roadbotics Helps Document Infrastructure Assets AgileMapper snaps, tags and maps assets with the speed and power of artificial intelligence. Tasks like asset inventories and inspections, monitoring sidewalks and tracking multiple projects can now be streamlined and simplified May 3, 2021 RoadBotics has released the AgileMapper platform to help users digitize their infrastructure assets and manage projects efficiently. AgileMapper snaps, tags and maps assets with the speed and power of artificial intelligence.  “After almost a year in the making, AgileMapper has evolved int...