July 27, 2015
Briefly
- Profile of Auckland Stats almnus Hadley Wickham at Priceonomics
- The kiwi (Apteryx, not Actinidia) genome was recently sequenced by a non-NZ research group. There’s a push for NZ-led sequencing of nationally-significant genomes: a taonga genomes project
- Linguist Jack Grieve (@JWGrieve) has been tweeting maps of various swearwords on (US) Twitter. These are relative to total number of tweets, so the don’t have the usual problem
The damn map…hydro-electric polysemy doesn’t seem to be skewing things too much at least http://t.co/iIRD4Cl5Ey pic.twitter.com/l15141jb9V
— Jack Grieve (@JWGrieve) July 16, 2015
- From Jonathan Marshall, the age distribution of NZ electorates, and their political hue: there’s a clear trend, and Ilam seems a bit of an outlier.
Updated plot ordering electorates by left/right vote as suggested by @kjhealy with added legend etc. pic.twitter.com/MZXyKRivNz
— Jonathan Marshall (@jmarshallnz) July 26, 2015
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 »