Briefly
Stats Chat 2014-10-10
- ‘The Age of Megacities’: maps from ESRI showing the growth of some of the world’s biggest cities
- Kitties in the CPI: the new StatsNZ CPI basket of goods – Stuff, Herald, StatsNZ press release, Stats NZ explanation of CPI
- Something strange happened to this month’s unemployment data in Australia: Guardian, ABC News, interview with Rob Hyndman (who knows from time series)
- “Ferguson’s 3,287 new registrants (in two months) is more than recorded by any township in St. Louis County in any midterm election since 2002.” Or not. A number that seems really extreme may just be wrong.
- When there’s a lot of variation, it can be a mistake to make statements about “typical” attitudes: Andrew Gelman