Recent blog posts I liked
Ah, the archive! - the joys of dusty research.
Putting some numbers on the value of the London Olympic Games
A link to the interactive map of local demographic changes since 2001
Welfare reform & not paying the rent - Explains some of the particular problems of managing cash flow on a very tight budget
Single Moms Can’t Be Scapegoated for the Murder Rate Anymore - as if they ever could
The half life of facts
I give up, I am embracing pie charts
“’Pie charts are a very bad way of displaying information. The eye is good at judging linear measures and bad at judging relative areas. A bar chart or dot chart is a preferable way of displaying this type of data’ … So why are they ubiquitous? The best explanation I’ve heard is that they are easy to make in Microsoft Excel”
Such rubbish could be written only by someone from a generation which never had to draw all their charts by hand.
That Was Then, This Is Now – Satire from JFK to Savile
In the good old days of the BBC “The producer was responsible. There was no referral upwards. It was your responsibility and if you made a mistake you were carpeted [by your boss] and then your boss defended you to the hilt.”
Summing up Alan Turing - a minimalist whose "brilliant mind was sparsely furnished”
Goodnight Nanny-Cam - stuff [for] the modern baby
And finally:
Almost All of the First 50 Billion Groups Have Order 1024
