StatLinks

The Internet makes it possible to link a dispersed community of common interest. Now there are a number of blogs that focus entirely or in part on Statistics, but they seem not to be well connected.

So I've just set up a social bookmarking website just for applied statistics, data analysis, and visualization. It's called StatLinks.

It lists links that users submit, and allows other users to vote on their relevance. Links are listed in order of popularity (or in chronological order, if you prefer).

I encourage people to visit StatLinks, to submit links that are likely to be of interest, and to pass the word! I've put a few links in to get things started. (Hat tip to Slinkset whose technology made it a breeze to set this up.)

Is it fair not to share?

Over at Adventures in Ethics and Science there's a very interesting post and follow-up comments on whether researchers should share data. It's based on a recent New York Times article by biostatistician Andrew Vickers (Cancer Data? Sorry, can't have it).