July 16, 2013
Briefly
- A data scientist is skeptical of the ‘Quantified Self’ movement
- Where data comes from: a shop that is tracking customer cellphones (and admitted it)
- Adversarial Stylometry: you can be identified by your writing style. Can you hide it? (PDF)
- Luis Apiolaza on whether corn crop yields in Europe and US refute a benefit of GMO corn (with graphs and data and stuff)
- The true cause of death, and why it’s hard to define and reconstruct
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 »