May 4, 2016
Briefly
- Interactive exploration of colours used to label subway lines around the world
- A historical list of data visualisations, starting in 5500BCE Mesopotamia
- An example of rainbow colour scales actually misleading people
- Selection bias: @_OneRandomTweet retweets one random tweet every few hours, “to remind you that people don’t use Twitter like you do“
- New Zealand used to have open data on road crashes. Richard Law writes about why getting rid of it was bad.
- Richard Clark: “The boundaries of New Zealand suburbs and localities is held by the New Zealand Fire Service. For years, the NZFS has refused to provide this data under any terms except a restrictive license, and it has to stop.“
- Outsourcing: Andrew Gelman is disappointed in the NZ Herald, so I don’t have to be.
- Survivor bias:
— Persian Rose (@PersianRose1) April 24, 2016
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 »
I wonder if we want an update from Richard Law to Tim Herbert’s comments in this
http://dieseltalk.co.nz/news/survey-transport-data-high-demand
?
8 years ago