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Data Journalism Navigating the Perfect Storm: An Open Source Developer’s Fight for Sustainability Amid Health Crises and Academic Funding Cuts September 16, 2026 Reynand Wu By Global Tech & Academia Desk Published in partnership with R-bloggers and Pacha.dev Main Facts: The Intersection of Open Source, Academia, and Personal Adversity The global open-source software ecosystem relies…
Data Journalism Bridging the Spreadsheet Divide: How Developer Sam Lovick Resurrected BERT to Bring Modern R to Microsoft Excel September 12, 2026 Evan Lee Salim LONDON — For data scientists working in corporate environments, a familiar professional friction exists: the technical team lives inside the flexible, powerful command-line environment of R, while the business stakeholders…