January 31, 2017
Habitat III and Seattle Urban Village Strategy
In 2016, cities occupied only 2% of the earth’s total land but they are home to 54.5% of its population. Transportation and mobility are important factors shaping urbanization. Habitat III was the 3rd United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development which took place in Quito, Ecuador, last fall with the goal to “reinvigorate…
January 19, 2017
The future of the first and last mile in Seattle
By Eric Barber With the passing of Sound Transit 3 via Proposition 1, many alternate routes of transportation will be made available to Seattleites. In return, an adult in the region can expect to see about a $169 increase in taxes each year. This is in addition to a region wide $303 already approved in…
January 5, 2017
What p-values tell us and what they don’t
Joe Janes from the UW’s Information School has an ongoing podcast series on “Documents that Changed the World.” His latest topic, Sir Ronald Fisher’s work establishing today’s standard threshold for statistical significance, definitely rises to that level. The podcast talks about the “surprisingly offhand manner” in which Fisher originally proposed a significance level of 0.05,…
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