March 24, 2014
Briefly
- Extrapolation: According to a US obesity researcher, by 2606 the US diet will be 100% sugar. And according to Skepchick, we’ll be immortal. He presumably isn’t entirely serious; she totally isn’t.
- From Quartz: The problem with data journalism So here’s a set of ethics that data journalists might follow to avoid common pitfalls:
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If people already think your data sharing plans are a bit creepy, you do not want to use the phrase “consent fetishists”. Really.
- Data visualisation: summary of street grid angles in various US cities. The Houston one is a bit misleading because the highways are so dominant in reality but not in the summary.
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 »