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Some regressions on school data
Eric and I have been exchanging emails about potential analyses for the school data and he published a first draft… -
Updating and expanding New Zealand school data
In two previous posts I put together a data set and presented some exploratory data analysis on school achievement for… -
A little break from data & policy: experibass
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New Zealand school performance: beyond the headlines
I like the idea of having data on school performance, not to directly rank schools—hard, to say the least, at… -
New Zealand School data
Some people have the naive idea that the national standards data and the decile data will not be put together.… -
(Unsurprisingly) users default to the defaults
Oddities tend to jump out when one uses software in a daily basis. The situation is even clearer when using… -
Suicide statistics and the Christchurch earthquake
Suicide is a tragic and complex problem. This week New Zealand’s Chief Coroner released its annual statistics on suicide, which… -
m x n matrix with randomly assigned 0/1
Today Scott Chamberlain tweeted asking for a better/faster solution to building an m x n matrix with randomly assigned 0/1.… -
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Mid-August flotsam
༄> Reached mid-semester point, with quite a few new lectures to prepare. Nothing extremely complicated but, as always, the tricky part…