West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)

Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.

Friday, March 30, 2018

Ironically, the turn-of-the-century printing technology looks worse because I used images compressed with early 21st century technology.

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We've been talking a lot about the late 19th/early 20th centuries and what sets them apart from other periods. We've focused on the...

Thursday, March 29, 2018

As soon as the phrase "cartoonishly evil" pops up, you'll probably know where we're headed.

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There are cases where the sober, balance, and accurate depiction of the facts will leave the subject coming off as cartoonishly evil. In th...

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Yes, if you promise something that you know you will probably never deliver, you are lying. Glad I could clear that up for you.

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This Wired piece by Erin Griffith shows how the tech community is starting to come to terms with the damage that hype and magical heuristic...

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

After looking at this 1889 torpedo, you'll find the "Savage" in the name entirely appropriate

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Another one of the threads we need to pick up on is how the idea of remote control (both electrical and wireless) changed the way people loo...

Monday, March 26, 2018

One more post on the NIMBY/YIMBY debate

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[I realize we've covered a lot of this territory before and I apologize for the redundancy, but I thought it might be nice to some every...

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Friday, March 23, 2018

Self driving cars

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This is Joseph. A few thoughts on the recent automated car crash. The cars need to be able to operate without safety drivers to actually...

"Adam ruins Facebook"

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A bit of a quibble. There is reason to be a bit skeptical about some of these claims of the amazing predictive and persuasive power of this ...

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Tech revisionism and the myth of the killer app

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I'm wondering if anyone else there occasionally has a "blogger moment." It is similar to a "senior moment," but it i...

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Repost: Given Facebook's current scandals, this seems like a good time to revisit this argument

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I don't know if I've actually come out and said this in so many words but Facebook should be forced to divest itself of Instagram (a...

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

THE PORTELECTRIC SYSTEM

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If there's an engineer in the audience, I'd very much like to know what the relationship is between this very cool 1890 system and t...

Monday, March 19, 2018

Echo Park Gentrification Watch

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While there is always room for the unique and the exceptionally good, Echo Park does not really need another restaurant. It definitely does ...

Friday, March 16, 2018

The Twonky

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This is not a good movie. Despite an interesting filmmaker and a fun lead, it's difficult getting through this one in a single sitting. ...

Thursday, March 15, 2018

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