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So Neo Nobels are... million-dollar prizes given by, instead of the King of Sweden or the King of Norway, there's one called the Rousseau Prize, which is given by the King of Belgium.

And that one is going this year to the R Project.

which is something that underlies all statistical modeling applications globally.

And that's a completely volunteer project over 30 years.

So you may not be interested in AI, but AI is very interested in you.

And so if you're just using a spreadsheet like Google Sheets, there's going to be a little button there and Google Gemini is running behind the scenes and it knows how to analyze the data in your spreadsheet.

And the reason is, it drank up all this knowledge that was expressed by, for example, the R project into how to analyze data, and it's just seamlessly making it available to everybody who's using Google Sheets.

And in Microsoft, you have, of course, the Excel library to co-pilot, and that's very similar.

[upbeat music] Hello, friends.

We are back with episode 240 of The R Weekly Highlights podcast.

That's one of those nice little round numbers that tells me we just keep this train going.

But if you are new to the show, this is the usually weekly podcast where we talk about the terrific highlights and sometimes additional resources that have been shared in this week's issue of R Weekly, which you can find at rweekly.org. My name is Eric Nantz.

Yes, we have entered September.

It is feeling quite frantic for yours truly.

Definitely.

All right.