August 29, 2016

Briefly

  • 538 has a new Twitter bot, censusAmericans, which tweets little descriptions of individuals from what I think must be the American Community Survey, though they describe it as the census.
  • “Relaxing Privacy Vow, WhatsApp Will Share Some Data With Facebook” (NY Times). “Relaxing” is such a nice way to put that, but as various people have pointed out, this is what happens when companies build up volumes of data.
  • A nice app for exploring how differences in some measurement (‘biomarker’) between groups of people (fail to) translate into reliable tests
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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 »

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    Antonio Rinaldi

    There’s no link for the nice app.

    8 years ago