by Richard Easther | Oct 17, 2023 | Data, New Zealand, Personal, Science in Our Lives
There is insight in the stories that numbers can tell, and for some of us that insight offers a sense of calm in turbulent times. Which may be why in the midst of this year’s rains I started making graphs of the accumulated rainfall and how it stacked up against...
by Richard Easther | Oct 11, 2023 | Data, New Zealand, Personal
I’ve been using social media since I found Usenet as a PhD student in the early 1990s. I was teaching at Yale when Facebook arrived from Harvard (one day it wasn’t there, then suddenly it was), I remember the debates about whether blogging was a risk to one’s academic...
