I shouldn't be surprised by this. No sooner did I sing the praise of Significance magazine (link) than a reader sent me to some charts that are not deserving of their standard. Here is one such chart (link): Quite a...
I shouldn't be surprised by this. No sooner did I sing the praise of Significance magazine (link) than a reader sent me to some charts that are not deserving of their standard. Here is one such chart (link): Quite a...
[This is a cross-post from the sister blog, Numbers Rule Your World] Some interviews with me or snippets of such have surfaced recently. Here is a list: Kate Meersschaert interviewed me for New Learning Times (link; registration required). I talked...
Some interviews with me or snippets of such have surfaced recently. Here is a list: Kate Meersschaert interviewed me for New Learning Times (link; registration required). I talked about my teaching philosophy, and why I write books. Jay Ulfelder, a political scientist who keeps an interesting blog, recommends Numbers Rule Your World, and a few other books for political scientists (link). If you haven't heard already, 2013 is the International…
What I read this week: Traditional Coast Guard boot camp when I was a grunt in the 1960s was twelve weeks, versus the Army's nine-week stint. This was because people who came into the Guard were usually in suboptimal physical condition and because we had more instructional classes, such as semaphore and maritime law. (From Lee Gutkind's book on creative non-fiction, You Can't Make This Stuff Up) If some study…
It is no secret that faculty evaluations at top universities weigh research much more than teaching. This is not surprising given that, among other reasons, global visibility comes from academic innovation (think Nobel Prizes) not classroom instruction. Come promotion time the peer review system … Continue reading →
About a year and two months ago, Stanford University taught three classes online: Intro to Databases, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. I took two of those classes (I did not feel I had time to take Artificial Intelligence), and found them...
This is part of the ongoing series of pro tips for graduate students, check out parts one, two and three for the original installments. You can never underestimate how little your audience knows/cares about what you are talking about (so be clear...
This is part of the ongoing series of pro tips for graduate students, check out parts one, two and three for the original installments. You can never underestimate how little your audience knows/cares about what you are talking about (so be clear...
This is scientific variant on the #whatshouldwecallme meme isn’t exclusive to statistics, but it is hilarious. This is a really interesting post that is a follow-up to the XKCD password security comic. The thing I find most interesting about t...
Thanks to reader Don M, I came across this fascinating chart published in the New York Times Review recently (link). The main article, about gender segregation in job categories, is found here. This is one of those charts that require...
