August 20, 2016
Briefly
- Mining data from Lending Club. And Matt Levine’s comments: Here are 50 data points about this loan. Do what you want….. And if there’s no field for “does this person have another LendingClub loan,” and if that data point would have been helpful, well, sometimes that happens.
- It’s just gone Saturday in the US, so it is no longer National Potato Day, and it won’t be National Spumoni Day until Sunday. Nathan Yau has a graphic of the 214 days that are National <some food> Day.
- A flowing map of the migration patterns that will be needed by species in the Americas with global warming. The Appalachians are important.
- Because genetic association studies are (or were) largely done in people of European ancestry, they can overpredict risks in everyone else. (NY Times). (The implication that this is also true of non-genetic research is, at least, exaggerated)
- Social media and its effect on blinded randomised trials. As the story doesn’t say, some of the same things happened in the early years of HIV research.
- By Sam Warburton on Twitter: the Olympic Rings as a Venn diagram
- Why those stories about the number of deaths from medical errors are more complicated than they sound
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 »