March 18, 2014
Briefly
- Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com is live. He writes about data journalism and what it is
- Also at 538, Jeff Leek (from Simply Statistics) Finally, a Formula For Decoding Health News
- At Pantheon, a visualisation of globally known people over time
- Genetics can shed a lot of light on disease, but not always. Derek Lowe writes about a new study of bipolar disorder, where the genetic associations seem amazingly diverse and inconsistent.
[Update: Just had to add this one from a Huffington Post survey: Nearly a quarter of Americans know what we should do about the Ukraine Administrative Adjustment Act of 2005]
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 »