Archive for vote
41% or 27%? [more than 13 million far right voters]
Posted in Statistics with tags abstention, elections, Emmanuel Macron, French politics, vote, vote against fascism on April 26, 2022 by xi'an
America in line [& the world in the balance]
Posted in Books, pictures with tags Agent Orange, democracy, Donald Trump, resolvable covering, The New Yorker, US elections 2020, US politics, vote, voters suppression on November 3, 2020 by xi'an
45 votes for Jensen’s inequality
Posted in Books, Statistics with tags cross validated, Jensen's inequality, uniform distribution, vote on November 27, 2019 by xi'an
Following a question on X validated as to why the mean of the log of a uniform distribution is not log(0.5), I replied with the obvious link to Jensen’s inequality and the more general if equally obvious remark that expectation was rarely invariant under transforms and ended up with an high number of up-votes on that answer. Which bemuses me given the basic question and equally basic answer..!
the future is Europe
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Belgium, Brussels, EU, European elections, European Parliament, jatp, murals, street art, vote on May 26, 2019 by xi'an
US elections [xkcd repost]
Posted in Books, Kids, Travel with tags Donald Trump, Randall Munroe, US midterm elections, USA, vote, voting station, xkcd on November 6, 2018 by xi'an
Randall Munroe of xkcd has designed this massive map of the US elections with links to all candidates and random places that I first mistook for voting stations (this would have been great!, to highlight how would-be voters can be discouraged from voting in some districts), as well as a few hidden comics and places irrelevant for the elections. (Warning: The above is a static copy!) With the great subtext that to edit the map readers need to submit their ballot before on November 7th.
