Forget bell curves, jellybeans, and coin flips to explain statistical concepts. Dancing Statistics…
Nathan Yau
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Statistical concepts explained through dance
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Before and after lot vacancy
Justin Blinder used New York’s city planning dataset and Google Streetview for a…
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Find new beers to drink
Based on reviews from BeerAdvocate, Beer Viz, a visualization class project, asks you…
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Basketball movements visualized
The NBA has been kind of gaga over data the past few years,…
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ProPublica opened a data store
One of the main challenges of any data project is getting the data.…
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Solar time versus standard time around the world
After noting the later dinner time in Spain, Stefano Maggiolo noted relatively late…
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Why you should buy the bigger pizza
Because you get more pizza to eat, and if you don’t finish it,…
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How to Read and Use Histograms in R
The chart type often goes overlooked because people don’t understand them. Maybe this will help.
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Job Board, February 2014
Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…
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Game theory to win game shows
I like how a little bit of game theory has crept into Jeopardy!…
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An exploration of selfies
Selfiecity, from Lev Manovich, Moritz Stefaner, and a small group of analysts and…
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Near-real-time global forest watch
Global Forest Watch uses satellite imagery and other technologies to estimate forest usage,…
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A human-readable explorer for SEC filings
Maris Jensen just made SEC filings readable by humans. The motivation:
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Using slime mold to find the best motorway routes
This is all sorts of neat. Researchers Andrew Adamatzky and Ramon Alonso-Sanz are…
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Why we think of north pointing up
Nick Danforth for Al Jazeera delves into the history books for why north…
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A visual explanation of conditional probability
Victor Powell, who has visualized the Central Limit Theorem and Simpson’s Paradox, most…
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Surviving on minimum wage →
As most of us know, it’s not easy getting by on minimum wage,…
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Data grab bag
— Using Dates and Times in R.
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Reporter app, for self-discovery through data
Nicholas Felton, Drew Breunig, and Friends of the Web released Reporter for iPhone.…
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Basketball analytics
Kirk Goldsberry talks the rise of analytics usage in the NBA. With cameras…