November 18, 2016
Briefly
- On Uber, you can rate drivers as, basically, “good”, “bad”, “terrible”,”should be fired”, …
- Facts about society that lots of people get wrong
- “So what I got from reading some of Clinton’s email is another piece of evidence confirming my intuition that political systems scale poorly.” (medium.com)
- How to visualise uncertainty
- Notable US election visualisations
- Another colour-selection tool (via my artistic brother)
- Cathy O’Neil on a program at Georgia State University: Here’s the thing. One of the hallmark characteristics of a WMD is that it punishes the poor, the unlucky, the sick, or the marginalized. This algorithm does the opposite – it offers them help.
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 »