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So next time you spot a smooth, wave-like pattern in your data… remember: it might just be Slutsky whispering through the noise.
#DataScience #TimeSeries #Economics #MovingAverages #SlutskyEffect #StatsHistory #QuantitativeResearch #StochasticProcesses
@allison_horst Here’s my loose schedule for the week! #StatsComm #RSS #YSS #Nightingale2020 #WSDS #KindStatS #StatsHistory #StatsFuture
Did you know about the UK census boycott of 1911? I was aware of Emily Wilding Davision hiding in the Houses of Parliament, but not that there was wider suffrage protest across the country - see this thread for some #statshistory
EVERYONE! It's the 108th anniversary of the census boycott today!
What's that, you ask?
The also have at #BLAngloSaxons the Exon Domesday. This is a record of the work of the data collectors (commissioners) in South West England (Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire), which was drawn on for the Great Domesday book. https://t.co/GzrjaDfZ2c #statshistory
#bornonthisday 1807: William Farr, ex-President of @RoyalStatSoc and pioneer in medical statistics #StatsHistory https://t.co/7goZKTZM2X & https://t.co/h2SnuhFskz
Love the details in this, about the early days of what became the @RoyalStatSoc Society and its House Committee, deliberating over what tea to serve, and how to do the milk )the Athenaeum way, apparently). We still use Twinings tea! https://t.co/2IRRLaGviM #statshistory
Just spotted that the European Society for the History of Science Biennial Conference 2018 in conjunction with @BSHSNews
is in London, 14-17 September, features sessions on #statshistory https://t.co/8wgxvedZ6E FYI @HistoryofStats
The Statistical Society of London was founded in 1834, later (1887) becoming the @RoyalStatSoc. In this thread, @infowetrust takes a look at the 50th anniversary celebration, held in 1885, papers here: https://t.co/OCNRRobY8h (JStor sub) #statshistory
Set the time machine for 1885 London. Holy mackerel what a program.
Over the next day or so I’ll be sharing my reading of the international event that was the golden Jubilee celebration of the Statistical Society, with a special eye for the “Graphic Method of Statistics”
A #statshistory plaque!
For the history of Student's t‐test and William Sealy Gosset, see @stephensenn in @signmagazine from March 2008 (open access): https://t.co/ZUvDDPtCab
For #SummerSolstice, read about Alexander Thom and the rise and fall of the megalithic yard, in @signmagazine (free) https://t.co/a1Xtjv9h0J #StatsHistory #HistSci
Live on Facebook: The winners of 5 @UN_UniteIdeas challenges announced today at 2:30pm (EST): https://t.co/LDjHRvmzgH @UN #CyberSecurityNLP #ArmedConflictAnalytics #HLPFmobile #BlockchainEducationalPassport #DDART #StatsHistory #STIForum
For #LondonHistoryDay, a reminder that Thomas Bayes' grave is in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, a couple of streets over from @RoyalStatSoc's office https://t.co/1ML3C4YF71 #statshistory
Brilliant! @aperiodical are hosting online Wikiquote edit-a-thon on 12 May to get more quotes from women added t the mathematics page: https://t.co/Et9mMEfPvK (I'm sure edits to Statistics quotes page https://t.co/EBgy8qHp90 would be welcome too) #statshistory
This is beautiful and useful - an interactive history of data visualisation in the style of John Ogilby's road strip maps: https://t.co/H1NKigqHYl from @infowetrust #RSSeTeachers #dataviz #StatsHistory https://t.co/MLnlpHoiOP
milestones of DataViz + infographics, 1630-1904
too fast? see them all @ https://t.co/WwtcQNxAPi
.@UNStats and @UN_UniteIdeas launch a #StatsHistory Data Challenge to unlock 70 years of statistical yearbooks contained in PDFs and convert them in machine-readable datasets. https://t.co/ulaipHXc1c
Help unlock 70 years of #StatsHistory! Join the UNITE Ideas challenge and use your #DataScience skills to transform historical editions of the UN Statistical Yearbook into actionable #OpenData. See how: https://t.co/8aZlBMOEiq
Help unlock 70 years of #StatsHistory! Join the UNITE Ideas challenge and use your #DataScience skills to transform historical editions of the UN Statistical Yearbook into actionable #OpenData. See how:
https://t.co/EXAyYwPr26
Maurice Bartlett, Past President @RoyalStatSoc 1966-67 is profiled by @royalsociety archivist Rebecca Hart, with examples of his statistical and artistic endeavours: https://t.co/8naxbolSps #StatsHistory @HistoryofStats
#bornonthisday in 1807: William Farr, ex-President of @RoyalStatSoc, pioneer in medical statistics #StatsHistory https://t.co/urFxecDeG6
#HappyBirthday George BOX (18 Oct '19 - 28 Mar '03) one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century #Stats #Bayesian #StatsHistory
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