July 31, 2015
Briefly
- Silk, a tool for publishing data graphics online
- A beautiful visual introduction to machine learning
- The importance of metadata: why iTunes is bad at classical music (from The Atlantic)
- Figure.nz is a charity devoted to getting people to use data about New Zealand: “We do this by pulling together New Zealand’s public sector, private sector and academic data in one place and making it easy for people to use in simple graphical form for free through this website.”
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 »