February 6, 2018
Briefly
- Aaron Schiff’s maps of “Small Towns of Aotearoa”
- “The Shame of Being a Statistic” by Diana Hennessy
- Color palettes: pigment.shapefactory.co (via @fogonwater)
- “From Spreadsheets to Headlines: A Day in the Life of Data Journalist Ryan Struyk“
- Bad data: What happens when a huge number of people share a single grocery store loyalty card? (not much, actually)
- Felix Salmon approves of changes in how Oxfam reports its wealth inequality data.
- “nobody thought to explain to it the long history of Black people being dehumanized by being compared to apes. That context is what made this error so serious and harmful, while misidentifying someone’s toddler as a seal would just be funny”. On AI and its limitations — not a new topic, but an usually good examination.
- In which everywhere is above average: data analysis of tourist expenditures by Peter Ellis.
- Matt Nippert and Keith Ng have a session on data journalism at the New Zealand Festival, if you’re in Wellington on March 9
- Key Concepts for Informed Health Choices: the website and the research paper. ” The concepts in this list are universally relevant. However, our initial focus has been on concepts that are important and possible to teach or communicate to children and poorly educated adults living in low-income countries. “
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 »
In a twist of the customer loyalty card number, Australia has found that a lot of small businesses in the Northern Territory are using another companys GST number- Bunnings. 40% of the quoted numbers on invoices were Bunnings. Its a tax evasion technique.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/bunnings-caught-up-in-massive-tradie-tax-fraud-amid-calls-for-abn-overhaul-20170802-gxnmz4.html
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