October 17, 2018
Briefly
- The Crime Machine: two podcast episodes (with transcripts) on New York City police and the good and bad effects of trying to measure crime and police effort
- You may have heard that Senator Elizabeth Warren had a genetic ancestry test. Carl Zimmer has a very good Twitter thread on what the results don’t mean
- ‘The Robots Learn By Watching Us’. Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine on training computers to behave like humans in stock picking and employment
- The New York Times has a map of every building in the United States.
- The Australian Bureau of Statistics is having its funding cut over time, which is probably not a good thing (via). This graph, though:
For barcharts and other area charts, the area is carrying the information, so you can’t just chop the bottom half off the graph. I put it back on: -
