February 16, 2015
Briefly
- The mathematics of the US Powerball lottery: even under the unreasonable assumption that you care about the million+first dollar as much as the first, it’s not worth it.
- How to choose data visualisations (from Scientific American blogs, via Alberto Cairo)
- The Dark Side of Open Data (via Harkanwal Singh)
- Animations of prime factorisations. Also via Harkanwal Singh. What makes these interesting is the lack of non-trivial patterns: to an striking extent, primes behave randomly (technical stuff by Terry Tao)
- A survey of mathematical podcasts, from mathbabe.org
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 »