March 12, 2025
Briefly
- The New York Times has an interactive with graphs showing how everything changed when Covid started. It’s also an explanation of why it’s hard to estimate the effects of specific actions on Covid: everything changed at once
- Visualising how different languages represent animal noises: the spellings can look very different, but the underlying phonetics are more similar
- “The answer to the how-many-significant-digits problem is the same as the answer to the what-to-graph problem: The click-through solution“. Or in other words, you can have tables without stupid numbers of digits and let people who want detail click to see it
- The website of the US Centers for Disease Control as it existed on Jan 6 has been copied to RestoredCDC.org, hosted in Europe. This won’t help with ongoing data collection, but it does make the past data from the CDC more reliably available.
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 »