Author: Jeff Lundy

By Jeff Lundy While most people took up breadmaking during the pandemic, I got into cocktails. I don’t know how it took me so long to get into cocktails, as it basically combines chemistry with booze.  As a nicety for my houseguests (whenever we have those again), I coded...

By Jeff Lundy I know a couple friends who model their retirement outcomes. Recently, I asked them what growth rate they assumed for investments. Interestingly, we all used a similar rate: 4%. That seems appropriately conservative, and by setting it low you bake in all kinds of uncertainties (taxes...

By Jeff Lundy There are many books about the early history of science.  There are even several histories of statistics.  Yet, I’ve not seen a social history exclusively devoted to data; even though, without data, statistics could not even exist. In this blog post, I’m going to argue that...