On R is My Friend, as a way to procrastinate on his own…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Length of the average dissertation
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The Numbers Game on National Geographic
Jake Porway, the founder of DataKind, has a new show on the National…
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Problematic databases used to track employee theft
Employee theft accounts for billions of dollars of lost merchandise per year, so…
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How to become a password cracker in a day
Deputy editor at Ars Technica Nate Anderson was curious if he could learn…
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Odds of a perfect NCAA March Madness bracket
Math professor Jeff Bergen explains the odds of picking a perfect bracket.…
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Declining songwriter ratings with age
Do singer-songwriters age well like a fine wine, or does quality decline with…
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Data hackathon challenges and why questions are important
Jake Porway, executive director of DataKind on data hackathons and why they require…
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What data brokers know about you
Lois Beckett for ProPublica has a thorough piece on data brokers — companies…
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Using search data to find drug side effects
Along the same lines as Google Flu Trends, researchers at Microsoft, Stanford and…
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Netflix data and puppets
Andrew Leonard for Salon fears what might come of the creative process if…
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This pie chart is amazing.
From the Winnipeg Sun. Something isn’t right here. [via]…
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Porn star demographics
Jon Millward explored porn star demographics using a data scrape from the Internet…
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Analysis of LEGO brick prices over the years
Reality Prose has an excellent analysis on the changing price of LEGO bricks…
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Philosophy of data
David Brooks for The New York Times on the philosophy of data and…
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The most poisoned name in US history
Biostatistics PhD candidate Hilary Parker dived into the most poisoned names in US…
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Using data to find a husband
When it was time to settle down with the right man, Amy Webb…
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Data Analysis (with R) on Coursera
Jeff Leek, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…
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Statistical network of basketball →
By now, everyone’s heard of Moneyball. Applying statistics to baseball to build the…
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The differences between machine learning, data mining, and statistics
From machine learning to data mining. From statistics to probability. A lot of…
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A new kind of resource
Jer Thorp talks ethics in the data-as-new-oil metaphor:
[W]e need to change the…