May 4, 2016

Briefly

  • A historical list of data visualisations, starting in 5500BCE Mesopotamia
  • Selection bias: @_OneRandomTweet retweets one random tweet every few hours, “to remind you that people don’t use Twitter like you do
  • Richard Clark: “The boundaries of New Zealand suburbs and localities is held by the New Zealand Fire Service. For years, the NZFS has refused to provide this data under any terms except a restrictive license, and it has to stop.
  • Outsourcing: Andrew Gelman is disappointed in the NZ Herald, so I don’t have to be.
  • Survivor bias:

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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 »

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