Basically a website for a single SVG. But its' a good SVG.
Striking editorial by murdered Sri Lankan journalist published posthumously.
A right wing stapler? A left wing movie? Amazon can help you out.
I read this right after reading Sartre's No Exit. If hell is other people, it's also no people at all.
Good for Zeynep publishing this. But I don't really see what the point is. The problem for democracy is that campaigning is about manipulating people to win votes, not about actually engaging in issues. The mass media approaches to this are not particularly less scary to me, even if they are not as effective as new more data-driven approaches.
Check out the Reducing Inequality post which were recently featured on Crooked Timber. Recommended reading.
President of the US for one day.
Ouch. This is a bad book review: "The empirical information he provides is perfunctory at best. His command of Marxism seems limited. His historical reach extends to his own earlier works. His vast theoretical apparatus is jimmy-rigged and empty. The graphs are inane, the writing atrocious. To call this book dull as dish water maligns dish water."
An old post by Andrew Gelman on the whole "daughters make you a lefty" phenomena and how there is a potential bias introduced by the fact that having children is made of intermediate outcomes. Something that might be addressed with multilevel hierarchical models (no surprise coming from Gelman, I suppose).
Nice write-up by Rick Perlstein (via aaronsw, I'm sure).
I'm a little disappointed in this article. It's a little incoherent and doesn't do a great job of talking about what it means by statistics. It's something about the political power of data collection?
