Archive for ‘Statistics’ Category
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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 …
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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, …
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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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Statistics graduate students at Columbia University are hosting a symposium on careers for PhDs in statistics. Current confirmed speakers include industry statisticians at Google, AT&T Labs-Research, National Institutes of …
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Dash, an Internet-connected GPS device, is going to change the way you drive by making use of traffic data. Where does the data come from? Well, that's the best part. …
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Photo by mumelopics I stumbled across this dataset covering piracy of Oscar-nominated films over the last 6 years and a short analysis. Despite the Academy's efforts to crack down …
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In light of the MySpace photo breach (due to their negligence) a couple of months ago, I got to wondering about other recent data breaches. It turns out Attrition.org keeps …
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For our Humanflows project, we used the United Nations Common Database for our demographic numbers. Anyone who has used the common database knows that it's not especially user-friendly. You have …
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I stumbled across a data table from the Social Security Administration that shows the probability of death. It's an actuarial life table estimating the probability that you will die within …
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I don't think I've seen a single Rambo all the way through nor do I remember the premise of any of the movies, but I still found these kill counts …