May 1, 2019

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  • A good use of computerisation in criminal justice: efficiently expunging non-violent cannabis-related convictions in California
  • Missing Numbers is a blog about the data that the government should collect and measure in the UK, but doesn’t.
  • 3-D visualisation of flight patterns around major airports
  • “While AI can be an incredibly useful tool, we should proceed with caution until machines achieve a sufficiently nuanced understanding of human values that they do not become obsessed with constructing an armed compound on their own private island.” From America’s Finest News Source
  • Beautiful visualisation about migrants in Brussels (one of the few places with a greater proportion of people born outside the country than Auckland)
  • The power of effective (and, arguably, misleading) maps

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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 »