June 11, 2016
Briefly
- from Wired: Transitland collects and aggregates transit data feeds from around the world. Though apparently not this part of the world
- Another great New York Times interactive, on US voting patterns.
- Unusual maps: a sailing map from the Marshall Islands, via Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
- The Royal Statistical Society ‘Statistical Excellence in Journalism’ awards
- How do you study the impact of changes from the ‘sharing economy’? Andrew Gelman and Tom Slee on AirBNB “Academics now tend to ask me (a) how to refer to the data set, and (b) how they can validate it for publication purposes, to which I generally reply (a) I have no idea, and (b) I have no idea”. Sarah Emerson on Uber
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 »