August 5, 2016
Briefly
- StatsNZ tries to count Pokémon
- Pollster.com is dropping (US) polls that only use landline phones.
- Todd Niall at RadioNZ looks at Labour’s claim of only 1 house below $500,000 from the Unitary Plan. The estimates from the modelling that Labour relies on range from 1 to 40,000 depending on the mix of choices assumed.
- From Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin, at the Guardian: the West Island’s forthcoming Census is not making friends. This is bad. The census is important; trust in the census is important.
- On a more positive not, the Guardian also has an database of dog names in Australia. Sadly, there aren’t any Rottweilers called “Fluffy”.
- Timothee du Hamel has a map of Auckland streets, coloured by slope, for bike planning.
And, finally, a nice note on how to display agree-disagree data and similar:
@visualisingdata yes! reminds me of best practices for Likert scales. 3 min photoshop👇 pic.twitter.com/fODo20I2LG
— RJ Andrews (@infowetrust) August 2, 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 »