April 22, 2015
Briefly
- Large numbers are dehumanising, so should big data worry us? From the Guardian
- On the other hand, statistics and a real-time display on the use of emoji have got to be humanising, right? (via @mlle_elle)
- AirBnB’s data blog
- From the BBC: The illusion of control and how it makes us feel better. That’s part of the benefit of real-time transit prediction: knowing how long you have to wait makes you feel more in control, as long as the system is good enough not to shatter the illusion.
- Social networks to visualise relationships between allegedly-independent landlords
- A systematic, data-based comparison of Shanghai xiao long bao vendors
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 »