July 31, 2014
Briefly
- Five data visualisation tools focused on design: once you can do ‘accurate’, the next step is ‘ooh, shiny’
- Why do people suddenly think their iPhones are slow? A piece at the NY Times ‘Upshot’ blog using Google search data
- Cathy O’Neill writes about two stories about standardized tests
- [update: I forgot to add] Unsurprising conclusions drawn from unreliable data: According to Stuff a bogus poll says people under 35 are more likely to use smartphones when looking for a job than people over 50.
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 »
To counter your anti-standardisation testing links, I submit Todd Farley on
“In Defense of the Standardized Testing Industry”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/todd-farley/in-defense-of-the-standar_b_802715.html
10 years ago