Albacore goldmine
Ben Goldacre has a new book, “Bad Pharma”, coming out next week. I was checking to see if the Auckland city library had ordered it:
Indeed they have. Also, I found out that they have a graphical search tool for looking at connections between possible search terms. Just like Google’s Knowledge Graph, only not. Clicking one of the orange words (eg, albacore or goldmine) takes you to another set of connections: albacore, hardcore, Vegemite, lockdown, toast, Screwtape,.. the possibilities for free association are endless).
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »