I had this tweet appear in my timeline Okay, the top answer to this turns out to be incredibly interesting: https://t.co/rcMcmTEQ87 pic.twitter.com/Pl8wFfgOfy — Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) August 7, 2017 Which links through to a quora discussion about the internet formulation of z/(x+y) + y/(x+z) + x/(y+z) = 4 and an example image of With the… Continue reading Making a problem harder to make it easier
Using base R (as I did previously) means thinking about what do I want plotted where. Using ggplot means thinking about what job is the data doing in this graph. This is just running through what I was thinking when making my own version the Scientific American births per year style graph, but using… Continue reading Circular banded graphs for ggplot
Since I had previously played with NZ birth data, so had a bunch of code lying around New Zealand Births and Friday the 13th and Scientific America published some visualisations https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/why-are-so-many-babies-born-around-8-00-a-m/ I thought I would match the time of year visualisation with the New Zealand data Because New Zealand has opposite seasons, but a seasonality that… Continue reading Births again
I just released what I would call an important project I did in my spare time. Overturns scientific consensus. 7+ Sigma. Easy stats. Public data. Reproducible. Replicable. https://thoughtfulbloke.github.io/eqnz
I am of the opinion that confidence intervals should be shown as a range, and coloured/ shaded bands are a good way to show it. They are a probability distribution after all (but you can’t make histogram because it disappears to invisibility after 3 sigma, so bands seems the best plan). Admittedly, I am trying… Continue reading A modest proposal- coloured confidence intervals
In the wake of the Brexit Referendum a few people vented their frustration that people should have to show a basic competency with the electoral system, with various media anecdotes. That may not be such a good idea folks. Aside from fundamental constitutional democratic principles that should not be messed with, you might get a… Continue reading When I said stupid people shouldn’t vote, I didn’t mean me
From a discussion in StatsChat http://www.statschat.org.nz/2016/02/21/crushing-and-crashing/ Where it was wondered about the way that the 2011 earthquake’s effect on road conditions might influence people street racing cars. Taking the Road Policing driver offence data http://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/road-policing-driver-offence-data-january-2009-september-2015 and the date of the Canterbury Earthquake of 22nd February 2011, let’s see if “Did the munted roads alter speeding behaviour”… Continue reading Speed bumps
This is just a brief write up explaining how if you have an individual identifier, and a group identifier, you can match individuals between data sources on the basis of the other members of the group. In this particular hypothetical example I am using birth-date and household, but the principle holds for any individual identifier… Continue reading People are social- data matching individuals by associations
I just put up quite a detailed reanalysis on Github about an article https://github.com/thoughtfulbloke/birthRateReanalysis But as Github is not the easiest place for non-technical people to discuss matters I am setting up a companion blog post here where people who are not comfortable using Github’s commenting system can leave messages (the messages get to me… Continue reading For discussion about analysis on Github
thoughtfulbloke aka David Hood 