Briefly

• Public Policy Polling, who were behind the ‘would you bomb Agrabah?’ question last year, are at it again.

 Harambe, as you may recall, is ineligible because of age, vital status, and species.  (/ht @smurray38)

• Nathan Yau at Flowing Data has an animation to illustrate what, say, a 60% chance of winning the US Presidential Election means — for people who don’t work with probabilities regularly, showing them as counts is helpful. Some statisticians would argue that the ‘repeated elections’ way of thinking about the probability is wrong, but that doesn’t affect its usefulness in conveying the number.

• Russell Brown explains numbers and history for Radio NZ’s recent audience success.

• Frances Woolley, a Canadian economist, looks at the recent highly-publicised study examining height trends across the world.  (/ht @BenAtkinsonPhD)

• Wall Street Journal has a lovely glyphmap of US electoral history (/ht @fogonwater)

• Cathy O’Neill writes about the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It criminalises violations of website terms of service — which you’d expect to be a matter of contract law — and puts quite a bit of data journalism at risk.

• Update:  I wrote on how it was strange for an otherwise health 20-year-old law student to be the exemplar patient in a campaign to increase awareness about a disease primarily of the old. Stuff now has a story on who was pushing the publicity campaign.