Along the same lines as Google Flu Trends, researchers at Microsoft, Stanford and…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Using search data to find drug side effects
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General Social Survey
The General Social Survey has been running since 1972, and many questions have remain unchanged to make comparisons possible. The data from then to 2012 can now be downloaded in a variety of formats. [via]
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Hack D.C.
Hackathons to put open data to use.
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Three Decades of Decennial Data
The United States Census Bureau just made more data available via their API. You can now access decennial data for 1990, 2000, and 2010. The API isn’t especially advanced, but it’s a heck of a lot better than PDF tables.
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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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Meet the world’s top NBA gambler
ESPN profiled professional basketball gambler Bob Voulgaris. He shoots a lot of data into a predictive model for NBA games and then makes bets based on simulations. His ROI is falling.
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This pie chart is amazing.
From the Winnipeg Sun. Something isn’t right here. [via]…
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What Data Can’t Do →
A follow-up to this from David Brooks
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MS in Data Science →
New 2-year program at NYU starting Fall 2013
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Interview with Google statistician →
Experiences analyzing lots of data and collaborating with computer scientists, data scientists, and quantitative analysts
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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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Start Paying Attention to ‘Long Data’ →
The need for big/small/long data terminology is stupid, but the main points are valid
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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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Candyland →
An analysis of the board game and gameplay
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Cat Dataset →
2 gigs of cat data with images and eye, mouth, and ear positions. Yeah.
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Data science on Wikipedia →
I guess it’s official now
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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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Elements of Statistical Learning →
Free PDF download version for second edition of book [via]