Gee, thanks!

Stats Chat has had a few nice mentions in dispatches over the past few days, and in this blog-eat-blog world, we thought we oughta share them.

Thanks to Janet McAllister for describing us, along with a couple of other blogs, as “excellent” and “useful” in her New Zealand Herald  column on the weekend.

And this from Public Address, Russell Brown’s thoroughly readable  blog, about his sneak preview of the new, tabloid Herald: The new pages better accommodate the use of infographics – and, happily, editorial staff will have received three training sessions in the use of statistics by the time the paper relaunches. This ought to be a more productive relationship between the Herald and the University of Auckland’s Statistics faculty than the paper having its homework constantly corrected in StatsChat.

Stats Chat just might have run one of those training sessions, on the Monday before last, and we  just might have called it “Learning to Love Statistics: A workshop for journalists”. Thumbs up to the Herald – its journos have had, or are about to have, a session with Statistics New Zealand about how they can best use its marvellous online tools.

And we aren’t out to hassle the Herald, honestly. It’s just that we’re in Auckland, and the Herald’s published seven days a week, and we are still loyal subscribers to the old-fashioned paper product …