🚀 R: Check if an object is of type POSIXct or POSIXlt - Snippet #101
Discover how to check if an object is of type POSIXct or POSIXlt with R
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In the United States, Threads already has more daily users than X
Matt Navarra on Threads, citing a Business Insider article, reports that in the United States, Threads already has more daily users than X, formerly Twitter. In April 2024, Threads has 28 million daily active users, X has 22 million. Threads has 100 million monthly active users, X has 140 million.
2024 has already broken multiple temperature records
Carbon Brief has published a comprehensive article containing multiple visualizations of global temperature data. The visualizations show that 2024 has already broken multiple temperature records. As shown in Figure 1, the first four months of 2024 have seen the largest temperature anomaly since the 1940s. The temperature anomaly is the
Joe Biden's campaign is raising a lot more money than Donald Trump's campaign
Figure 1 is an interesting plot shared on Bluesky by Jacob T. Levy. It shows the cumulative total of funds raised by the campaigns of Donald Trump (in red) and Joe Biden (in blue), in 2020 (dotted line) and 2024 (solid line), between 600 days before Election Day and Election