May 16, 2013
Briefly
- Via @felixsalmon, bad graphics moving into baseball
- Twitter Hate Map aims to show where racist or homophobic tweets occur. It tries to correct for the usual denominator problem, but there just aren’t enough tweets from some parts of the country
- Early this morning, the moderately accurate pageview counter on WordPress ticked over to quarter of a million page views on StatsChat. It’s only a small milestone — someone like Ben Goldacre gets more hits than that every time he tweets — but at least we’re world famous in New Zealand. Web metrics site Alexa.com estimates that 0.000066% of internet users have seen StatsChat!
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 »
Are you allowed to tell us the estimate of internet users who’ve seen Statschat without putting a confidence interval or margin of error on it? [more seriously, congratulations on 1/4 million views…]
11 years ago
You are world famous in a certain circle in Tucson, AZ. I never miss one of your postings since I was touted onto StatsChat six months or so ago.
And I admire New Zealand, too.
Congratulations.
Lee
11 years ago