Statistics

If you’ve ever created an interactive graphic or anything else that requires that…

You can get pretty far with data graphics with just limited statistical knowledge,…

Private browsing. All the modern browsers have it. Turn it on, and the…

Shady research from Harvard scientist Marc Hauser is confirmed:
On Friday, Michael D.…

Weather in the private sector is over a $1.5 billion industry, and it’s…

My wife is an ER doc, so I hear about this sort of…

I should just automatically bring the OkTrends feed into FlowingData. In their never-ending…

Online dating site OkCupid continues with amusing yet thorough analysis of their 1.51…

This past Sunday, well-known whistle-blower site Wikileaks released over 91,000 secret US military…

Yeah, you read that right. Tardiness makes the world go ’round:
One day…

internet.artizans reflects on the usefulness of open data:
I’m inspired by the idea…

In regards to the UK’s recent boom in open data, Simon Rogers of…

BP processes about 1.5 million barrels of crude oil per day, across six…

Maybe there’s something to this whole data science thing after all. Mike Loukides…

Health and Human Services (HHS) is about to announce the launch of their…

Men’s Health takes a look at America’s most sugary drinks and their junk…

When you ride your bicycle around, I bet you always wish for two…

John Allen Paulos, a math professor at Temple University, explains, in the New…

No clue where this is from, but something seems sort of off, no? I guess we should take the title literally. By the numbers… only. I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt though, and assume this was just an honest mistake. Here’s my guess about what happened.

Sebastian Wernicke, an engagement manager at Oliver Wyman and former bioinformatics researcher, explains the results from his pseudo-analysis of TED talks. The result: a guide on how to give the ultimate TED talk.