I see the department of the bleeding obvious have been at it again, according to this story in today’s Times. It is a study about people’s attitudes to the lockdown. Apparently people with smaller cramped homes are less happy about being confined to their home than people with more space. Also people without mental health […]
Entries Tagged as 'Statistics'
New research in from the department of the bleeding obvious
June 26th, 2020 · Comments Off on New research in from the department of the bleeding obvious · Life
Operation inflation
March 22nd, 2019 · Comments Off on Operation inflation · Life
Well. Had a meeting with my surgeon today. Instead of the original estimates of a 7-hour operation followed by a hospital stay of 7 to 14 days, where they might try to send me home after 5 days it now looks a bit different. Because they want to put in a tracheostomy for various reasons […]
Tags: Medicine/Health·Statistics
What the fip?
May 23rd, 2018 · Comments Off on What the fip? · Music
I’m not sure what to make of the new ‘listening report’ feature on Last.fm. Generally I am happy to just listen to music without analysing it all, but it is sometimes fun to look into the statistics and get a few surprises. For example, I was a little surprised to see that last week I […]
Tags: fip·Statistics
All you can eat statistics
February 21st, 2018 · Comments Off on All you can eat statistics · Life
One of the good things that the UK government does is to make piles of its datasets available on the internet. I find it quite easy to get lost in piles of data, making odd connections or discovering unexpected things. This evening I have been looking at vehicle statistics, which are here.
Tags: Cars·Electric Cars·Statistics
The Monty Hall spreadheet
August 12th, 2016 · Comments Off on The Monty Hall spreadheet · Life
Somebody at work recently discovered the Monty Hall problem and got into an argument with a colleague about it, which led to him writing a VB program to demonstrate the solution. I suggested that you could probably knock up a decent simulation of the solution in Excel, using only in-cell formulas and not resorting to […]
Tags: Maths·Statistics
Post-election anoraking
May 11th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Politics
Tonight was Crawley Labour’s constituency meeting and, unsurprisingly, the mood was good. I enjoyed congratulating Peter Smith, Colin Moffatt and Chris Mullins on winning their seats and others for holding onto theirs. There was also a new leader of the Labour group to congratulate.
Tags: Elections·Statistics
Mindboggling aviation statistics
May 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mindboggling aviation statistics · Technology
For some reason I was looking at the Wikipedia page for the B-24 Liberator WWII heavy bomber, saw the numbers that were built and it got me thinking. It sounded like a lot (18,482 built in 6 years) so I started looking around at the numbers built of other aircraft for comparison and came up […]
Tags: Aviation·Statistics
Number-crunching the leadership ballot
September 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
I was pleased to see the data behind the leadership ballot released, and also a little surprised. But mostly pleased. The data is available as a Google Doc here and you can download it all to your own computer to pull it about in Excel. ((or Open Office of course))
Tags: Elections·Labour Party·Statistics
Is it 18 months already?
August 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off on Is it 18 months already? · Music, Technology
Spotify still feels like a new toy, but it appears I have been using it for about least a year and a half now.  Soon after I started on Spotify I started scrobbling to last.fm and I have just reached the milestone of having listened to 20,000 tracks since then. Looking at the statistics on […]
Tags: Spotify·Statistics
Lessons for the left
February 6th, 2010 · 23 Comments · Politics
I found this article on the BBC website to be in equal measures interesting and depressing. It is called Why do people vote against their best interests? and is about the US healthcare issue, but really has lessons for the left over here too.
Tags: Labour Party·Statistics·USA
