June 7, 2016
Briefly
- Animated commuting map for every county in the US. Something like this could be done with StatsNZ data….
- Alex Harrowell at The Yorkshire Ranter writes about two new papers combining large-scale data mining with sampling and human interpretation to study China’s ’50-cent party’ (五毛党) internet commentators
- Canada Post have given up their lawsuit against a group that crowdsourced Canadian postal code data. (<looks pointedly in direction of NZ Fire Service>)
- In the US, increasing numbers of households have smartphones and don’t even have landlines for broadband internet.
- Y-axes, from the UK Office of National Statistics
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 »
RE commuting map, something like this for NZ: http://www.stats.govt.nz/datavisualisation/commuterview/index.html
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