My stuff » Uncategorized http://michelhollands.net/blog Tech and travel tidbits Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:59:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Correlation or causation http://michelhollands.net/blog/2011/12/13/correlation-or-causation/ http://michelhollands.net/blog/2011/12/13/correlation-or-causation/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:59:22 +0000 Administrator http://michelhollands.net/blog/?p=267 Statistics are easy :

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/correlation-or-causation-12012011-gfx.html

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Recolucion

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Well worth subscribing to.

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Some people have too much spare time.

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The nice thing about the job is that I get to program Python for a living now :) .

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http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/

They’re in financial trouble, but they seem to get how the Internet should work.

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Here’s a map from my New Zealand trip :

nz_map.jpg

The same for a Firenze trip :

firenze_map.jpg

This is one for India, showing the route I took there :

Lastly, here’s the one for Australia :

Trip map Australia

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wallace_gromit.jpg

Cool.

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