December 21, 2014

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  • At Flowing Data, Nathan Yau’s picks for best data visualisation projects in 2014: “One unintentional theme: All of my picks are interactive or animated or both. Telling for where we’re headed, I guess.”
  • At Simply Statistics, Jeff Leek’s “non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2014″
  • Also at Simply Statistics, an interview with (awesome) economist Emily Oster.
  • We haven’t had the ACC’s Christmas Sermon yet this year, but the Herald has a story on food/cooking-related injuries. It’s notable for the fact that these injuries really are higher on Christmas Day than during the rest of summer, by about 50%.  A nice change.
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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 »