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Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.

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As computer programming becomes an increasingly valued skill in the workforce, there is a greater need to understand how people learn to code most effectively. Statistics show that up to 50% of ...

Large language models (LLMs) can generate impressive data visualizations from simple requests, yet their accuracy remains underexplored. Here we present a benchmark of 293 coding tasks derived from 39 ...