OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Million Dollar Idea: Google Vote

Here’s my pitch to Google. We will offer a new service to millions of Internet users of voting age – Google Vote!

Read more...

Shannon Poll: Information Theory and Electoral Mandates

A look at whether Information Theory supports the idea of a mandate from the Australian electorate

Read more...

Statistical Outliers

A lecturer in statistics once explained to me that when you had a large sample of measurements, it is sometimes necessary to identify the “outliers”; values which are either very suspicious (if there is a risk of experimental error) or very interesting because they are so far outside of the normal range of values. There’s […]

Read more...