April 13, 2014
Briefly
- Tell me again how you have big data?
- Herald: Figures released under the Official Information Act show that since 2003, $225m debt has been racked up, with just $308,700, or 1.3 per cent, repaid to unsecured creditors. Actually, 308700/225million =0.001372 = 0.13%, not 1.3%
- Brian Keegan: Need for openness in data journalism, and the Bechdel test
- World map of the closest airport . Rapa Nui and Tierra del Fuego pick up a lot of the load.
- How well can people in Boston guess their blood alcohol concentration? (not very)
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 »