Statistics

A follow-up to this from David Brooks

New 2-year program at NYU starting Fall 2013

Experiences analyzing lots of data and collaborating with computer scientists, data scientists, and quantitative analysts

Jon Millward explored porn star demographics using a data scrape from the Internet…

Reality Prose has an excellent analysis on the changing price of LEGO bricks…

David Brooks for The New York Times on the philosophy of data and…

The need for big/small/long data terminology is stupid, but the main points are valid

Biostatistics PhD candidate Hilary Parker dived into the most poisoned names in US…

An analysis of the board game and gameplay

2 gigs of cat data with images and eye, mouth, and ear positions. Yeah.

I guess it’s official now

When it was time to settle down with the right man, Amy Webb…

Free PDF download version for second edition of book [via]

Jeff Leek, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…

I’ve been on a statistics-for-basketball spree as of late

Changing times and new ways to reach people

Learning how people play their games to provide more fun

By now, everyone’s heard of Moneyball. Applying statistics to baseball to build the…

From machine learning to data mining. From statistics to probability. A lot of…

Jer Thorp talks ethics in the data-as-new-oil metaphor:
[W]e need to change the…