March 7, 2013
Briefly
- From the frozen north: the most pointless bar graph I’ve seen in a long time.
- A website with interviews in data science and analytics, currently featuring UoA graduate Hadley Wickham, in his role as Chief Scientist of RStudio
- From the Herald, a successful HRC-funded randomised trial of an NZ-invented inhaler for asthma. They don’t link to the paper and editorial (which are not in ‘the prestigious Lancet medical journal’, but in the perfectly respectable Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal)
- The US Census Bureau has released data on commute times, collected in the American Community Survey. The Census Bureau has an infographic (sigh), but since the data are available, other people can do better, in this case the New York public radio station WNYC (via)
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 »