June 20, 2018
Briefly
- Auckland Transport commissioned market research firm TRA to do a survey on attitudes to bike paths. Mike Hosking didn’t like the results. Hilarity ensues.
- Mike Bostock looks at ways of comparing data on maps
- “Household Water Use During Argentina-Iceland Game Looks Like You’d Expect” from Reykjavik Grapevine (who are clearly enjoying the World Cup)
- mathwashing.com is a website about, unsurprisingly, ‘mathwashing’ — making a bad decision look better by saying it was made by a computer (or an algorithm). It’s completely one-sided, but it’s still a useful corrective.
- Pew Research tried to study the extent to which people distinguish between assertions of fact and statements of opinion in the news. It’s harder than it sounds.
- Janelle Shane writes about how you can distinguish pastiche written by a neural network from parody written by people
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 »