Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

An analysis after watching a year’s worth of SportsCenter

Statistics / Deadspin, ESPN, sports

Patrick Burns for Deadspin watched 23,000 minutes of SportsCenter, keeping track of the…
Data.gov revamp

Data Sources / government

After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…
Datalandia, the fictional town saved by data

Statistics / GE

GE has a short video series on a fictional town called Datalandia where…
Link

A big collection of sites and services for accessing data

Data Sources / Andy Kirk, link

Andy Kirk put together a big collection of sites and services for accessing data. It’s essentially a big ol’ data dump.
Predicting riots

Statistics / Hannah Fry, riots

Hannah Fry and her group at University College London investigate data from the…
Link

Statistics for Point Pattern Analysis in the Real World

Statistics / link, spatial

Lillian Pierson provides a summary of methods to measure distance and clustering in a spatial context.
Dictionary of Numbers extension adds context to numbers

Statistics / context, human

We read and hear numbers in the news all the time, but it…
Statistics jokes

Statistics / humor

There’s a fun CrossValidated thread on statistics jokes. Here’s the one with the…
Beer recommendation system in R

Statistics / beer, R, recommendation

Using data from Beer Advocate, in the form of 1.5 million reviews, yhat…
Twitter trend detection algorithm

Statistics / MIT, trends, Twitter

Stuff happens, and people tweet about it. Something major happens, and a lot…
Non-statistician analysts are the new norm

Statistics / Jeff Leek, non-professionals

As data grows cheaper and more easily accessible, the people who analyze it…
The differences between a geek and a nerd

Statistics / geek, nerd, Twitter

Curious about how people use “geek” and “nerd” to describe themselves and if…
Hans Rosling explains population growth and climate change

Statistics / environment, Hans Rosling

Because every day is a good day to listen to Hans Rosling talk…
Myths of big data

Statistics / big data

Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford describes several myths of big data. Myth #4: It…
Link

ScraperWiki

Data Sources / link, ScraperWiki, Twitter

Easily scrape tweets and download them as a spreadsheet with ScraperWiki.
Medicare provider charge data released

Data Sources / health, medicare, New York Times, Washington Post

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released billing data for more than…
Convergence of Miss Korea faces

Statistics / Korea, plastic surgery

After seeing a Reddit post on the convergence of Miss Korea faces, supposedly…
Length of the average dissertation

Statistics / dissertation, length

On R is My Friend, as a way to procrastinate on his own…
Link

Path Social Networking App Settles FTC Charges

Data Sharing / FTC, link, Path, privacy

Path, a social networking app that lets you track and share personal information about yourself, settled with the FTC for $800k. They allegedly collected kids’ personal information without their parents’ consent. This is from February but important to know.
The Numbers Game on National Geographic

Statistics / Jake Porway

Jake Porway, the founder of DataKind, has a new show on the National…

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