Lighthouses of the Mediterranean. I spy a leafy seadragon or a flying dragon. Tried something different here to see if I can light up the sea with lighthouses—what do you think? #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Really interesting discussion on the sweet spot 4-8 member districts enjoy. Particularly relevant for us in Malta as some discussions lately advocate gutting STV5 for a single nationwide constituency (effectively STV65).

Never expected this flying suit theme exit poll graphic for parliamentary election tonight here in S.Korea.

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Putting that polling 'miss' in context, and a brief aside about methodology: charlesmercieca.com/post/2024-06-1…

French pollsters are so bored they literally tested Napoleon (yes that one). He'd beat Macron 62-38.

Bayesian search theory in action. This example is straight out of the literature from its use in the incredible story of the hunt for the wreck of the USS Central America. If finding old shipwrecks using statistics is your thing: charlesmercieca.com/post/2024-09-0…

You can get from raw audio file to an image like this in circa 50 lines of python code. I play around a bit with NOAA APT here: charlesmercieca.com/post/2024-11-2…