Unaccountable leaders set the tone for all in public service
The decline of good government has not been an accident. Those in public service are probably of much the same calibre, idealism and intellectual capacity as ever. What they are not getting is leadership – by words or by deeds.
Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins calls for review of staffer laws | ABC News
Using behavioural science at the Bad End of town | G-Reg
Using behavioural science at the Bad End of town - YouTube
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Border Agents Can Search Phones Freely Under New Circuit Court Ruling The Verge
A Barcode Scanner App With Millions of Downloads Goes Rogue Wired
Breached water plant employees used the same TeamViewer password and no firewall ars technica
OpenLux : the secrets of Luxembourg, a tax haven at the heart of Europe Le Monde. In English.
The Crony Ratio”: £800 Million In Covid Contracts To Donors Who Have Given £8 Million To Conservatives Byline Times. Impressive ROI.
Leaked NHS Reform Plan Could See Reduced Role for Private Sector MedScape
Director of France’s elite Sciences Po steps down over Duhamel abuse scandal Politico
What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years?
We argue that the most important statistical ideas of the past half century are: counterfactual causal inference, bootstrapping and simulation-based inference, overparameterized models and regularization, multilevel models, generic computation algorithms, adaptive decision analysis, robust inference, and exploratory data analysis. We discuss common features of these ideas, how they relate to modern computing and big data, and how they might be developed and extended in future decades. The goal of this article is to provoke thought and discussion regarding the larger themes of research in statistics and data science.
