December 10, 2012
Briefly
I’ve been away or busy for a couple of weeks, so here are some collected links on statistics, graphics, the media, and risk
- Wired has a list of top scientific graphics for 2012; Andrew Gelman doesn’t like some of them (more)
- Mathematics in elevator (you know, lift) scheduling, in the Wall Street Journal
- Neuroscience Fiction, in the New Yorker (what brain waves do and don’t tell us)
- Why iPad-native journalism doesn’t work
- A bloke called Tim Gowers writes about how he decided to have an operation, and about the difficulty in getting an intuitive feeling for risks. There’s nothing particularly unusual about the story, except that it shows risk is difficult even for really smart people
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 »