The Data Detective Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics by Tim Harford Readers of my blog and newsletter know that I am a big fan of the books Factfulness and Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me). I want to add Tim Harford’s The Data Detective to this “how to make sense [...]
Be careful what you amplify And some thoughts on color palettes / color ramps Background This tweet got a lot of attention recently (see https://twitter.com/andishehnouraee/status/1284237474831761408?s=20) Figure 1 -- Tweet suggesting that Georgia is trying to hide something. While I did not retweet it, I did blindly chime in that this looked like gross incompetence, [...]
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson This book explains so much that I find troubling about the world, from politicians doubling and tripling down when they should know better, to prosecutors refusing to believe DNA evidence, to [...]
