So I’ve been rather lax with my posting schedule recently. A combination of three things conspired against me writing anything sensible here.
- I’ve been contributing towards another piece for Significance – reviewing the methodologies of different polling companies in Great Britain (as most don’t bother with Northern Ireland) in advance of the General Election.
- Teaching – my final year class in applied statistical modelling had a major piece of coursework (modelling the number of arrivals per hour at a festival and using that information to inform the organisers about optimal arrangments for opening hours etc) meant that I was providing a lot of additional time to my students. I enjoy this part of my teaching as it really allows for students to develop beyond the scope of what can be taught in large groups, but it is extremely time consuming.
- Computer issues. I’ve had some pretty major computer issues recently; affecting both my personal laptop and my work machine. Both had to be replaced (my work machine did give me the lovely warning of “imminent hard drive failure” just in time. These caused numerous delays over the last month, so something had to give in my efforts to catch up.
Hopefully things will start to run a bit more smoothly (regression towards the mean would imply that this should be a reasonable assumption!) and I will be able to devote a bit more time to writing about the interesting things stats related that are sure to be popping up with a bit more frequency in the run-up to the election.
To be decided 