A fitness app is bringing new insights into the way we use bicycles. Source: Strava maps show where Australian cyclists go An interesting example of using “big data” constructively – and maybe a good sort of thing to look at…
Category: Data Analysis
The Increasing Problem With the Misinformed
The public is no longer uninformed. They are misinformed, and that requires an entirely different editorial focus. When writing for the uninformed, your focus is to report the news, which is what every newspaper is doing today. But when focusing…
Neuroscience Fiction – The New Yorker
The first and foremost reason why we shouldn’t simply disown neuroscience altogether is an obvious one: if we want to understand our minds, from which all of human nature springs, we must come to grips with the brain’s biology. The…
Ensuring R Generates the Same ANOVA F-values as SPSS — Stats Can Be Fun
Ensuring R Generates the Same ANOVA F-values as SPSS — Stats Can Be Fun: “Learning Statistics Using R” This is a useful post on how to select error terms in R to ensure that the F-values match what SPSS produces…