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The Markup

Journalistic Lessons for the Algorithmic Age

6 min · Feb 4th · A farewell letter from Julia Angwin · Shared by 167, including Brian Stelter, Stephanie A Kowalski, Lluís Codina, Jay Rosen, Andreas Von Gunten, Yann “不停” Heurtaux @shalf@mastodon.social, Marie-José Kolly, Clemens M. Schuster, Sisi Wei, felix salmon
media
journalism
eventoddlers.xtreemhost.com

http://eventoddlers.xtreemhost.com/PSMRInterview.h…

2022-06-10 · Shared by 5, including Marie-José Kolly
Quartz

Scientific journals are incentivized to publish positive drug studies

3 min · 2022-02-05 · The revenue medical journals earn from reprints is a big incentive to publish studies with positive findings. · Shared by 12, including Marie-José Kolly, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️‍🌈
catalogofbias.org

Catalog of Bias

2 min · 2022-01-27 · Systematic differences in the identification of individuals included in a study or distortion in the collection of data in a study. · Shared by 8, including Marie-José Kolly, Gregg Gonsalves
projectionwizard.org

Projection Wizard

7 min · 2022-01-26 · 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… · Shared by 5, including Marie-José Kolly
Collab Fund

Does Not Compute

8 min · 2022-12-11 · 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… · Shared by 600, including Morgan Housel, Marie-José Kolly
psychology
brain
stories
logic
Most highlighted
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

From 2021 · Shared by 4, including Marie-José Kolly
givinggreen.earth

Recommendations | Giving Green

3 min · From 2021 · 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… · Shared by 20, including Marie-José Kolly
givewell.org

Top Charities

7 min · From 2017 · Real change for your dollar · Shared by 94, including Max Roser, Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan in other places), Jeremy Caplan, felix salmon, William MacAskill, Alex Tabarrok 🛡️, Marie-José Kolly, Clemens M. Schuster, Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊
The Pudding

The Naked Truth

8 min · From 2021 · How the names of 6,816 complexion products can reveal bias in beauty · Shared by 86, 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 · From 2021 · 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… · Shared by 4, including Marie-José Kolly
The New Yorker

What Data Can’t Do

8 min · From 2021 · When it comes to people—and policy—numbers are both powerful and perilous. · Shared by 719, including 👨🏻‍💻☕️, Satya Patel, David Smith, Ronald van Loon, Nige Roberts-Willson, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Chris Moran, Michael Seemann, Tim Harford, Mike Tamir, PhD, Bob E. Hayes, Abeba Birhane, Kyle Bunch, Marie-José Kolly, Helen De Cruz, Eric Topol, Mirko Lorenz, Brian Ahier, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Tactical Tech
books
society
data visualization
data
new yorker
Most highlighted
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 · From 2021 · We're still thinking about pandemic data in the wrong ways. · Shared by 182, including Gregg Gonsalves, Scott Gottlieb, MD, Michael Mina, Erin Kissane, but gone, 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

From 2021 · 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 · From 2020 · The kind of people who answer polls are really weird, and it’s ruining polling. · 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
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