Stick your hand in your pocket

People are surprisingly relaxed about giving away their data. What doesn’t work well now (basically, everything that tech giants pass … More

Visualising predictive models in big data

I tweeted thus: I'm looking for examples of #dataviz of predictive models in genuinely #bigdata. Hexbin residuals density around a … More

Review of “Past, Present and Future of Statistical Science”, edited by Xihong Lin et al This is the version sent … More

Review of “Computer Age Statistical Inference” by Brad Efron and Trevor Hastie This is the version sent to Significance magazine … More

As regular readers know, I’m interested in methodviz, and so I took a look at this visualisation by Adam Harley, … More

I have been writing a book review of Efron & Hastie’s CASI for Significance magazine. Here’s a tangential half page … More

A more techy one this week. Ruth Fong and Andrea Vedaldi have a paper on ArXiv called “Interpretable explanations of … More

This came up on Twitter and lots of people were outraged, as you see in the replies and retweets. Many … More

Font Map is an interactive website by designers Ideo which aims to represent typefaces in 2 dimensions so you can … More

At the end of April 2017, I will leave my university job and start freelancing. I will be offering training … More