Sometimes progress takes the form of not getting killed with a poleaxe. Via HN. The population of London in the 14th century likely ranged between… Read More »The Good Old Days: Medieval London Murder Map (2019)
From a nice piece on the Our World in Data blog, with some helpful data points, here. See also: Max Roser: defining global development Our… Read More »Three truths about global development and progress from Max Roser
This was a good interview on Farnham Street’s The Knowledge Project – listen here. Marc Andreessen: It’s the most natural thing in the world to… Read More »Marc Andreessen on Scar Tissue, Trying and Failing in the Probabilistic Domain
This (the Galton Board) is tremendous. If you haven’t seen it, you must, you must. The first video is great, but if you only have… Read More »Statistics: The Galton Board and more
This is an excellent introductory series of videos giving an overview of what data is, important differences between different types of data, how it’s processed… Read More »Recommendation: Computerphile on Data Analysis
A friend shared this fantastic resource about [statistical] Causal Inference, about which I know very little. This book (and website) looks like a great place… Read More »Reading list – Scott Cunningham’s Causal Inference: The Mixtape
Mood affiliation was a concept I first coined to refer to people who judge arguments by the mood of the argument. So there are some… Read More »What is mood affiliation?
KoboToolbox is a data collection tool that enables you to write surveys, install them for completion offline on Android devices or via a web browser.… Read More »KoboToolbox setup workflow: how to get offline survey or data collection up and running on an Android device for free in less than an hour
DC visits year-on-year Year Visitors Change Page Views Change Views/day 2018(6 months) 229 – 700 – 3.8 2019 1,542 +573% 2,827 +303% 7.7 2020 8,094… Read More »Janus (2): DC stats 2020
… views of DriverlessCroc as of 2nd September 2020. That’s 1000 views in almost exactly a month, with an average of 32 views per day… Read More »9k