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(Effect) size matters
Nathan Yau is not Edward Tufte. Yau is a doctoral student in statistics. Tufte is a Yale professor emeritus. Yau’s list of his 5 best data visualization projects of 2008 has a common missing element (from four of the listed projects) that E.T. would pull tufts of hair out over: the images have no quantification. […]
Comment weirdness
For some reason, the older entries had the comment-permission wiped out with the upgrade. The comments still exist on Haloscan, but they’re just not showing up here! I’m sure there’s an easy trick to fix that, but it may take a while. Update: Problem fixed. Kludgy templates…
Catching up
I think I’m finally back to full health, or at least 95%, and my union finished the ratification of a contract that was tentatively agreed to just before Thanksgiving, all of which is good news for EPAA readers and authors, who are both owed stuff. It’s good news for my students, who have turned in […]
Collegial support with a touch of greed
This morning is the last half-day of the History of Education Society meeting in St. Petersburg. Several times this weekend, I found myself encouraging friends and colleagues to finish book manuscripts. I want more reading, even if I don’t currently have time to do it! I just wish it hadn’t required quite so much paperwork […]
Being an historian is a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it
I voted by absentee this year, so I was able to canvass for a little this afternoon before turning into Chauffeur Dad. I’m waiting at a large warehouse-turned-kid-exercise-palace, with a gymnastics place on one side and my son’s taekwondo place on the other. I was sitting on the floor when I heard a fellow parent, […]