RStudio is an Integrated Development Environment for R. It has made life easier for thousands of R programmers. In this era of IoT and low power computing, ARM chips are becoming increasingly popular, not only in mobile devices but also in high-end laptops. The Raspberry Pi project has popularised always-on, low-power computing. Many cloud providers, like AWS, Oracle cloud, etc., have recognised the tremendous possibilities with ARM chips and offer powerful ARM-based machines.

Last day, my professor asked me to analyse some common demographic parameters of France. France, like most other European first-world nations, and unlike India, is on the verge of getting into an advanced phase of demographic transition. The perils of an ageing population is imminent. An old population is pernicious for both its economy and healthcare system. France is not too old, yet, but policymakers must prepare well in advance for both waning fertility rates 👶 and a huge proportion of elderly people 👵.

The state of West Bengal was created with the partition of India in 1947. Before obtaining independence from the British Raj in 1947, West Bengal was a part of the state of Bengal. Later, it was bifurcated and West Bengal and East Pakistan were formed. The diverse demography of West Bengal, erstwhile Bengal, was first enumerated in 1872. It was the first attempt at anything like a systematic enumeration of the people in that part of India.