As promised awhile back, my blogging frequency has dropped off a bit as I tend to some more time-consuming details in my meatspace existence.
I've also missed some fabulous posts around the blogosphere. I wanted to direct Terra Sig readers to a moving yet data-driven essay by Professor PZ Myers at the University of Minnesota at Morris, better known as the blogger who writes Pharyngula. PZ is a terrific writer but this post is particularly excellent.
I'll be back shortly with something meaningful.
More like this
This Alberto Cairo piece on "data journalism" has been kicking around for a while, and it's taken me a while to pin down what bugs me about it.
Wishing all of us a happy, prosperous, data-filled 2010.
I've discussed before how our political discourse shouldn't be the sole purview of English majors
Clive Thompson nails it when he describes the importance of statistical thinking (italics original; boldtype mine):