1940. Data Vis Dispatch: August 1, August 8, August 15, August 22, August 29 1941. Explainable AI: Visualizing Attention in Transformers 1942. Linear Programming in Python 1943. It Takes Long to Become Gaussian 1944. Cookbook Polars for R 1945. Package development lifecycle process: What does superseded mean? / What does deprecated mean? 1946. Difference-in-differences, Average […]
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Twenty years of Marginal Revolution
The blog Marginal Revolution turns 20 today. Not many blogs that were active 20 years ago are still active today, if they are even available online (one other exception is Crooked Timber, a blog that turned 20 last month). A while ago, I decided to go through all posts on Marginal Revolution. I started with […]
The quality of opinion polling in parliamentary elections
How good are opinion polls to capture election results in parliamentary elections? To answer this question, I collected data on 40,139 opinion polls, covering elections in 37 countries (238,019 unique party-election observations). The data comes from a variety of sources, including European Opinion Polls as Open Data, POLITICO Poll of Polls, Wikipedia, and country-specific datasets […]
Assorted links #31
1143. Notes on The Gambia 1144. The Story of Titanium 1145. and then? ↪ This is good advice: “If you’re trying to get through your work as quickly as you can, then maybe you should see if you can find a different line of work. And if you’re trying to get through your leisure-time reading […]
Brexit was not a polling failure
The conclusion in the wake of the Brexit referendum was that the referendum was a failure for the opinion polls. In other words, the polls got it all wrong. Here is one representative example from The Guardian on the media coverage following the referendum: “It wasn’t just a bad night for Europhiles and David Cameron, […]