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One of my goals this year is to publish 2 books. One got published. Sort of. Data Science for Sustainable Development Goals: India Case Studies is an open-access anthology and I’m the designated author of Chapter 10: Using Data Analytics to Improve Students’ Performance is about how Gramener worked with NCERT to analyze the National Achievement Survey data, discovering stuff like TV hurts maths but not reading scores, playing helps maths but not reading scores, fathers of West Bengal (not mothers) and mothers of Punjab (not fathers) influence their children’s scores the strongest, and so on. ...

Lists I maintain - of various kinds.

The Woodward and Bernstein papers. Woodward and Berstein of the Washington Post wrote a series of stories leading to the resignation of Richard Nixon. Their novel All The President’s Men has a gripping account of their adventure. Now, their original papers are available at the University of Texas.

The Best Google Answers.

FindArticles: A good search for magazine articles (review)

Interesting read. A weblogger’s date read his weblog. Lesson to all webloggers: say nice thing about yourself.

Archives of old versions of programs. As opposed to Beta versions.

More weird news.

Scientists have decided not to publish in journals that do not make their archives available for free. Cheers!

Google bought Deja. I don’t know which is better news – that they have money to buy companies, or that I can now search the Usenet.

US Postal Department archives interesting letters. It includes famous love letters and ‘Dear Santa’s.