Lockheed Martin’s Space Fence, expected to be in initial operation in 2015, will…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Tracking space garbage with Space Fence
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A guide for scraping data
Data is rarely in the format you want it. Dan Nguyen, for ProPublica,…
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The Joy of Stats available in its entirety
The Joy of Stats, hosted by Hans Rosling, is now viewable in its…
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Why the other lines always seem to move faster than yours
Why does it almost always seem like you’re in the slow line at…
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Right versus wrong bubble size
I was going to post this graphic from Good when it came out,…
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Data analysis is the future of journalism
Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the Web, says analyzing data is the future…
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Jon Stewart explains Wikileaks’ Cablegate
You’ve probably already heard and read about Wikileaks’ Cablegate. If not, Andy Baio…
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How do people use Firefox?
Mozilla Labs just released a bunch of anonymized browsing data for their open…
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Statistics vs. Stories
Professor of Mathematics at Temple University, John Allen Paulos describes the differences between…
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R is the need-to-know stat software
This Forbes post on the greatness that is R is being passed around…
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Making recalls and market withdrawals more accessible
Last week I found out that the FDA has a feed for all…
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Simple analysis makes Expedia extra $12m
There was a problem on Expedia where a lot of people were choosing…
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Stat concepts to the tune of Gershwin
Stat people will probably find this amusing. For the rest, this might make…
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Opportunities in Government 2.0
Vivek Wadhwa talks government data and the (financial) opportunities ripe for the picking:…
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A different analytical wall
In reference to the wall between reporting data and understanding it, Martin Theus…
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OkCupid explores gay and straight stereotypes
Online dating site OkCupid dives into their data for 3.2 million users again,…
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The simple truth about statistics
Matt Parker explains why no one should be fooled by a misuse of…
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The real stuff white people like
Online dating site OkCupid continues their run of amusing yet thorough analysis of…
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Various ways to rate a college
There are a bunch of college ratings out there to help students decide…
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Simple data converter from Excel
If you’ve ever created an interactive graphic or anything else that requires that…