October 31, 2019
Briefly
- Radio NZ talks to Chris McDowall and Tim Denee about their new atlas of Aotearoa, We Are Here.
- Kieran Healy maps dog breeds in New York — and talks about colour choice for the maps
- Janelle Shane’s Ted talk on AI weirdness.
- “There was a statistic going around that said 1 in 6 millennials have at least $100,000 saved.” Nathan Yau actually looks at the numbers.
- From Ars Technica, “A health care algorithm offered less care to black patients”
- Terrible election graphs are an international problem: here, from Canada
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 »