Notebooks on statistics, history, and whatever I tend to find interesting or amusing. This is essentially my personal Memex; I am an information hoarder, with well over 1,100 scientific articles in my collection (as of early 2017), and my goal is to rapidly find information on some topic I last cared about several years ago. I dump random ideas, links, articles on various topics, articles relevant to my research, and anything vaguely interesting here, along with (occasionally) commentary, so I may find it later.
Concept shamelessly stolen from Cosma Shalizi, though executed with less erudition and insight. Warning: I am boring.
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Privacy and surveillance – January 30, 2024
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Writing – October 4, 2023
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Rhetorical structure of writing – October 4, 2023
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Pedagogy – October 3, 2023
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Writing in statistics – September 13, 2023
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Algorithmic fairness – April 16, 2023
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Causality – December 2, 2022
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Regression – September 2, 2022
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Dimensional analysis in statistics – August 4, 2022
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Survey sampling – June 14, 2022
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Algorithmic due process – May 7, 2022
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The many-hands and many-causes problems – January 18, 2022
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Machine learning and law – January 10, 2022
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Statistical misconceptions – August 10, 2021
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Philosophy of science – August 10, 2021
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Online advertising – October 31, 2020
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Predictive policing – October 25, 2020
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Surveillance capitalism – October 24, 2020
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Textbooks – June 3, 2020
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Cognitive task analysis – April 30, 2020
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Statistical programming languages – February 11, 2020
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Film – February 9, 2020
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Item response theory – January 31, 2020
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Wildfire prediction – January 30, 2020
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Think-aloud interviews – November 6, 2019
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Interpretable and explainable models – November 6, 2019
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Mutually exciting point processes – November 2, 2019
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Teaching statistics – May 31, 2019
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Student assessment – April 3, 2019
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Self-exciting point processes – January 2, 2019
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MCMC convergence diagnostics – January 2, 2019
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Experimental design – September 29, 2018
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Observational studies – August 26, 2018
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Spatiotemporal point processes – July 25, 2018
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Academia – July 6, 2018
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Policing – May 8, 2018
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Research ethics – April 10, 2018
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Course evaluations – March 14, 2018
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Blockly for statistics – March 12, 2018
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Mathematical misconceptions – February 21, 2018
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Philosophy of statistics – February 20, 2018
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Predicting recidivism – January 27, 2018
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Beverages – January 21, 2018
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Statistical power and underpowered research – January 8, 2018
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Peer review – September 15, 2017
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Coffee – August 5, 2017
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Teaching programming – July 31, 2017
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Scientific typesetting – June 23, 2017
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The First Amendment – June 22, 2017
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Forensic science – June 18, 2017
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Bootstrapping – March 31, 2017
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Scientific publishing – March 22, 2017
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Durable data – March 22, 2017
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Paul Meehl and psychology – March 15, 2017
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Probabilistic programming – February 28, 2017
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Copyright and intellectual property – February 26, 2017
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Watermelons – February 17, 2017
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Graphical inference – January 22, 2017
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Law and jurisprudence – November 17, 2016
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Fisher information – August 17, 2016
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Epidemic models – July 20, 2016
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Writing proofs – July 11, 2016
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Fast kernel density estimation – July 6, 2016