April 25, 2014
Briefly
- via Lennart Nout, a map of where people (well, users of the Strava app) cycle in Auckland.
- Nathan Yau, on the difference in his recorded activities since his son was born.
- Another ‘what you can’t do with big data’ piece, from the New Yorker
- Arbitrary goals can make a difference: many more people finish a marathon just under than just over 4 hours.
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 »