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Why Did Andy Dufresne Escape from Shawshank? -
Patrick Ball, a human rights statistician, finds truth in numbers while analyzing and consulting to find patterns and uncover scale in crimes against humanity. The tension started in the witness …
Data and Statistics For Human Rights -
Facebook recently released Lexicon which is like a Google Trends or Technorati for wall posts. Type in a word or a group of words, and you can see the buzz …
Facebook Lexicon - Trends for Writings on the Wall -
Atheist Statistics For 2008 - Do You Believe These?
This video shows statistics centered around atheism, claiming that atheism is correlated with a healthy society. I don't want to turn this into a religious debate, but I really don't … -
Rachel, one of the organizers of Columbia's Life After Statistics, reflects on lessons learned from the conference and gives respects to a fellow statistician who was lost the night of. …
Reflecting on Life After Statistics - R.I.P. Minghui Yu -
This past Friday, Columbia University stat graduate students hosted a symposium on careers for students in statistics. Kenneth Shirley, a stat post doc, was nice enough to write this guest …
What Can You Do With a Degree In Statistics? - A Follow Up -
Chris Harrison put together a series of Internet maps that show how cities are interconnected by router configuration. Similar to Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns, Chris chose to map only the …
World Internet City-to-City Connections and Density Maps -
Nexus, by Ivan Kozik, lets you explore your Facebook social network and find out what your friends have in common. Nexus kind of caught me off guard, because it actually …
What Interests Do Your Facebook Friends Have in Common? -
Wondering what statistics is for? This is what. Data are a whole lot of meaningful patterns. We can generate data indefinitely, we can exchange data forever... we can store data, …
Translating Data Into Information that Changes Us -
Position Available for Professor of Statistics at UCLA
While we're on the topic of what you plan to do with your PhD in statistics - UCLA department of statistics recently announced that it is looking for a new …
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