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• Being data curious: the strange case of lamb consumption in NZ

  There is a lot of talk about the skills needed for working in Statistics/Data Science, with the discussion often focusing…
  6 Feb, '18

• Why not film?

  [◉¯] “Why don’t you try film?”, he asked.
  11 Jan, '18

• Italo Calvino’s humanity

  皿 This year requires an extra dose of new perspective, to make the most of time, to bring the best of people.
  4 Jan, '18

• Reducing friction in R to avoid Excel

  When you have students working in a project there is always an element of quality control. Some times the results…
  11 Nov, '17

• Keeping track of research

  If you search for data analysis workflows for research there are lots of blog posts on using R + databases…
  21 Oct, '17

• Influences: Cronopios and Famas

  Books have accompanied me for all my life, or at least for as long as I can remember. However, my…
  20 Oct, '17

• This time is Calvino

  This happens relatively frequently: I am talking with someone else that doesn’t know me well and, at some point of…
  16 Oct, '17

• Calculating parliament seats allocation and quotients

  I was having a conversation about dropping the minimum threshold (currently 5% of the vote) for political parties to get…
  3 Oct, '17

• Collecting results of the New Zealand General Elections

  I was reading an article about the results of our latest elections where I was having a look at the…
  2 Oct, '17

• Where are New Zealand’s bellwether electorates?

  I was reading a piece by Graeme Edgeler who, near the end, asked “Where are New Zealand’s bellwether electorates?”. I…
  13 Sep, '17