Month: May 2021

  • To stack or not to stack

    To stack or not to stack

    That is the question. Or is it about the value of the individual responses versus combined responses? And don’t forget to smooth.

  • Querying Census Bureau for Divorce Rates

    Querying Census Bureau for Divorce Rates

    Trying to remake a divorce percentage chart led me learn about the new Census Bureau table query interface to its Public Use Microdata.

  • Suicides and Covid-19

    Suicides and Covid-19

    Looking at the raw data behind two recent studies of early suicide counts during the Covid-19 pandemic gives me a chance to try out a “moving box plot” since the data is a bit sparse for regular confidence intervals.