Numbersense Pros: Interview with Andrew Gelman

Professor Andrew Gelman is a pioneer in statistics blogging. His blog is one of my regular reads, a mixture of theoretical pieces, applied work, psychological musing, rants about unethical academics, advocacy of statistical graphics, and commentary on literature. He's one of the few statisticians who gets opinion pieces published in the New York Times. His expertise is statistics in politics, but I also enjoy his work on the stop-and-frisk policies of NYPD, debunking of evolutionary psychology and ESP reseaerch, etc. (I also recommend our collaborative piece on the Freakonomics franchise.) He is a co-author of Bayesian Data Analysis, one of...