Archive for ‘Statistics’ Category

• World Internet City-to-City Connections and Density Maps

  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 …

• Translating Data Into Information that Changes Us

  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, …

• 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 …

• What Are You Going to Do With Your PhD in Statistics?

  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 …

• Data is Going to Change How and Where You Drive - Dash GPS Navigation

  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. …

• Six Years of Piracy Data Available for Download - Shiver Me Timbers

  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 …

• 10 Largest Data Breaches Since 2000 - Millions Affected

  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 …

• A World of Information - United Nations Data Just Became Accessible

  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 …

• Estimate Financial Impact of Risk and Uncertainty for a Living

  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 …

• Rambo Kill Counts From Parts I, II, III, and IV

  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 …