Lies. Damn Lies. Statistics. And Polling.
The statistical foundations of political polling aren't rocket science. Unfortunately.
Heuristics
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.
An error message is as much of a question as it is an answer
When you find the answer to a question you don’t understand, you can expect to see it again.