Communication of statistics in times of fake news In a recent paper Emanuele Baldacci, (Director, Eurostat) and Felicia Pelagalli, (President, InnovaFiducia) deal with the ‘challenges for official statistics of changes in the information market spurred by network technology, data revolution and changes in information consumers’ behaviours’ (p.3) Three scenarios The status-quo or bad scenario: ‘Information will continue to … Continue reading The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
postfaktisch ‘Fake-news’ and ‘post-truth’ (postfaktisch) are the words dominating today many discussions about truth in communication. ' ... in post-truth [post] has a meaning more like ‘belonging to a time in which the specified concept [truth] has become unimportant or irrelevant’' (https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/press/news/2016/11/15/WOTY-16). False information or even lies are not new in the information business. And therefore many, … Continue reading Post Post-Truth
Last week I mentioned the grid.arrange function of the gridExtra package that allows me to combine graphical grid objects onto one page. The latticeExtra package provides another elegant solution for trellis (lattice) plots: the function c.trellis() or...
Evaluating the EU Open Data Portal ‘The Department of Library and Information Science at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) …Continue reading →
Head of Elstat (Statistics Greece) faces an official criminal investigation Kerin Hope (Athens) from Financial Times reports (27.11.2011): ‘The head of …Continue reading »
The European Commission opened its Open Data Portal some days ago. Powered by CKAN. . Most of the 5811 datasets (97%) are statistical ones …Continue reading »
