June 22, 2016
Briefly
- The Data Journalism Awards from the Global Editors Network (scroll down past the ceremony stuff to get the links to the award-winners). And a commentary from Simon Rogers
- Colorado legalised cannabis recently. They have data on teenage cannabis use over time. It hasn’t gone up, probably because teens who wanted pot could already get it.
I still haven’t seen anything on the two more important potential health impacts: do car crashes go up or down, does alcohol consumption go up or down.
- A nice detailed explanation of how YouGov is doing its predictions for the Brexit referendum. At the moment they are robustly unsure, estimating 48%-53% vote for “Leave”. They do discuss how badly the last election polling went, and conclude “if we have a problem, it will probably not be the same problem as last time.” (via Andrew Gelman)
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 »