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Quartz

Scientific journals are incentivized to publish positive drug studies

3 min read · Feb 5th · The revenue medical journals earn from reprints is a big incentive to publish studies with positive findings.
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catalogofbias.org

Catalog of Bias

2 min read · Jan 27th · Systematic differences in the identification of individuals included in a study or distortion in the collection of data in a study.
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projectionwizard.org

Projection Wizard

7 min read · Jan 26th · Geographic coordinates: WGS84 ETRS89 NAD83 Linear units: Meter Intl. Foot Projection Wizard is a web application that helps cartographers select an appropriate projection for their map. Depending on…
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Collaborative Fund

Does Not Compute

8 min read · Jan 6th · A lot of things don’t make any sense. The numbers don’t add up, the explanations are full of holes. And yet they keep happening – people making crazy decisions, reacting in bizarre ways. Over and…
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brain
psychology
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The concept of economic value is easy: whatever someone wants has value, regardless of the reason (if any), and its value is higher the more it’s wanted and the less there is of it.
statisticsbyjim.com

Confounding Variables Can Bias Your Results

2021-06-22 · Omitted variable bias occurs when a model omits confounding variables. This bias can completely flip your results! Learn how to detect and correct it.
Shared by 4, including Marie-José Kolly
yalegriffinprc.griffinhealth.org

Nutrition Detectives

2021-04-27
Shared by 4, including Marie-José Kolly
givinggreen.earth

Recommendations | Giving Green

3 min read · 2021-04-02 · Our current recommendations target two key areas: Carbon Offsets, which seek to cause immediate, verifiable decreases of GHGs in the atmosphere; and US Policy Change, which aims to change US policy to…
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givewell.org

Top Charities

7 min read · From 2017 · Real change for your dollar
Reader View · Shared by 41, including Max Roser, Jeremy Caplan, Brendan Nyhan, David Bauer, Felix Salmon, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Alex Tabarrok, Marie-José Kolly, Clemens M. Schuster, William MacAskill
The Pudding

The Naked Truth

8 min read · 2021-03-25 · How the names of 6,816 complexion products can reveal bias in beauty
Reader View · Shared by 87, including Mirko Lorenz, Gisele Navarro, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, luis antónio santos, Tactical Tech, Amber Thomas, Marie-José Kolly, Stephanie A Kowalski
data visualization
pruned-correlations.netlify.app

Pruned Correlations

3 min read · 2021-03-29 · Structured data tends to come in rows for observations and columns for variables. Whenever you run into a new dataset, it seems a good idea to stroll along its columns in order to establish a data…
Reader View · Shared by 4, including Marie-José Kolly
The New Yorker

What Data Can’t Do

8 min read · 2021-03-22 · When it comes to people—and policy—numbers are both powerful and perilous.
Reader View · Shared by 583, including 👨🏻‍💻☕️, Satya Patel, David Smith, Ronald van Loon, Nige Willson, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Chris Moran, Michael Seemann, Tim Harford, Mike Tamir, PhD, Bob E. Hayes, Abeba Birhane, Kyle Bunch, Marie-José Kolly, Kevin Marks, Eric Topol, Mirko Lorenz, Brian Ahier, Helen De Cruz, Tactical Tech
society
data visualization
data
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Seduced by their seeming precision and objectivity, we can feel betrayed when the numbers fail to capture the unruliness of reality.
The Atlantic

Why the Pandemic Experts Failed

10 min read · 2021-03-15 · We're still thinking about pandemic data in the wrong ways.
Reader View · Shared by 127, including Gregg Gonsalves, Scott Gottlieb, MD, Michael Mina, Erin Kissane, Shmuel Shoham, Patricia Churchland, Christian Fauteux, Tim Harford, Marie-José Kolly, Carrie Brown, Steve Silberman, Gabriel Leung, Jane, Alexis C. Madrigal, Marc Lipsitch, dj patil, Ben Jones
coronavirus
bfs.admin.ch

Öffentliche Statistiken zu Todesfällen, Übersterblichkeit, Todesursachen und meldepflichtigen Erkrankungen

2021-03-09 · https://www.bfs.admin.ch/content/bfs/de/home/statistiken/gesundheit/gesundheitszustand/sterblichkeit-todesursachen.assetdetail.16284253.html Social media links
Shared by 5, including Marie-José Kolly
Vox

One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong

9 min read · 2020-11-10 · The kind of people who answer polls are really weird, and it’s ruining polling.
Reader View · Shared by 58, including Jeff Atwood, Ken Norton, Marie-José Kolly, Matt Goodwin, T. Greer, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Bob E. Hayes, Rand Fishkin, Andrew Sullivan, Dr. Lauren Copeland
politics
Observable

Cheysson Color Palettes

2021-01-21 · Resuable color palettes, provided as SVG patterns, based on the late 1800s French Albums de Statistique Graphique by engineer and data visualization pioneer Émile Cheysson. Introduction This notebook…
Shared by 132, including Jerome Cukier, Birgit Schefer, Benjamin Wiederkehr, David Bauer, Stephanie A Kowalski, Jan Willem Tulp, RJ Andrews, Marie-José Kolly, Luminous Kaleidoscope
data visualization
visual design
colors
psych.mpg.de

psychisch_gesund_bleiben_w_hrend_social_distancing.pdf

2020-12-02
Shared by 6, including Marie-José Kolly, DON’T PANIC
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