Hey wassup Detroit Pistons? What’s gonna happen for the rest of the season? Let’s get (kinda) Bayesian. With graphs and code (but not a lot of data; sorry):

Paul Campos points us to this discussion of the record of the Detroit professional basketball team: The Detroit Pistons broke the NBA record for most consecutive losses in a season last night, with their 27th loss in a row. . … Continue reading

(Further ranting on Public Choice’s terrible decision:) If Uri Geller submits a paper claiming to have photographs of the Loch Ness monster, you don’t just say, Hey, the photos look real, let’s go publish!

A couple days ago we talked about a crappy paper published by the journal Public Choice alleging massive election fraud in the 2020 election. As political scientists Andy Eggers and Justin Grimmer put it, the article in question was “riddled … Continue reading

Using a “pure infographic” to explore differences between information visualization and statistical graphics

Our discussion on data visualization continues. One one side are three statisticians–Antony Unwin, Kaiser Fung, and myself. We have been writing about the different goals served by information visualization and statistical graphics. On the other side are graphics experts (sorry … Continue reading