Non-elites
From Mikhail Simkin comes some intriguing analysis of "experts"; in
Statistics
Baby names and success
While we speak of baby names, David F. nominates this set of
Is it random?
A puzzle (from Laurie Snell, via the Gelman blog): are the tiles
Convenience charting
Statisticians have long riled against "convenience sampling", that is, the
Subjectivity
When I look at charts like this one, I ponder: Should graph
Jamming
Readers may have noticed that I'm not a fan of