February 24, 2016
Briefly
- “Places“: Interactive maps of place name distribution in the US. For example “Lake” — with high density in the “Land of Lakes” but also in some less-expected places
- “Spreadsheets, the original analytics dashboard’, from Simply Statistics, about the origin of spreadsheets and what they were good for.
- Cats can see the ‘rotating snake’ optical illusion: video evidence from Rasmus Bååth
- As we’ve mentioned before, most people think teenagers have more risky behaviours now than in the Good Old Days. Most people are wrong. This time, from Vox.
- From Kieran Healy, the network of shared institutional affiliations for the 1000+ authors of the LIGO gravitational waves paper (click to embiggen). That is, many scientists have some sort of connection with more than one university; the graph shows how these link up the LIGO researchers.
- Come on, major political parties. Barchart axes start at zero unless you want to look like Fox News. There are reasons for this. If you don’t want to start the axis at zero use some other sort of chart.
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 »