August 13, 2018
Briefly
- Navigating word relationships from Wikipedia, spaceship-style:
- But just because social problems aren’t surprising doesn’t mean they aren’t worth mapping. Just because maps are similar doesn’t mean they’re actually the same. From Pro Publica, on maps of inequality in Chicago and similar topics
- Privacy issues with deep neural networks: they remember a lot more than they are asked to.
- The Royal Statistical Society announces its Statistical Excellence in Journalism awards. Well deserved.
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 »