This year I’m going to recommend two books every month which have help shape my adventures in data – we’re visiting probability and feedback in January.
Category: Interpretation of Data
Communicating Data: The Warming Stripes (Tie)
The story of The Warming Stripes needs little in the way of explicit direction, which is also why it is so adaptable to odd media (like ties and earrings).
#BeAWomanInDataViz Tableau Workshop
I haven’t felt compelled to write on this blog in some time, partly out of time and partly out having … More
Safe and Sorry – New Kurzgesagt video
If you know me in real life, you probably didn’t know me for very long before realising that privacy and mass surveillance are some of my hot topics, which I could discuss for several hours without much of a break.
THAT NEJM editorial and Kaggle
What is particularly interesting about this article and the debate it ignited (or soured, depending on how you look at it) is that it seems blind to the increasing interdisciplinary trend in data science – of which medicine is an obvious part – where fresh eyes find new ways to understand a problem.
What’s the meaning of ‘highly likely’?
Our societies use “threat levels” determined by domestic intelligence agencies for policing and security policy – but what do they mean?
