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If Knuth is a banquet, Christian and Griffiths are pemmican.
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Lies. Damn Lies. Statistics. And Polling.
The statistical foundations of political polling aren't rocket science. Unfortunately.
Category theory, first steps
compositionality systems or relationships combined to form new systems or relationships
Analytic Data Scientists -- know when to fold 'em
As an analytic data scientist, I want to spend my time thinking about data and ways to extract useful information from them. I can’t do that if I’m spending hours trying to figure out why syntactically valid software won’t compile.
Nathan Yau on the challenges of thematic maps
Combined with our innate over-perception of area and failing to weight voting results by percentage, we perceive a sea of red surrounding a few islands of blue.
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Counting chickens
Refining polling models. It's the received wisdom of the ages—don't rely on events that haven't happened yet. On the other hand, don't bring a knife to a gunfight, either.
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
If the election is close again, recounts will make it unlikely that the election outcome will be known on the day of voting.
History and tradition strike again
What comes of turning legal analysis into historiography.