What if you were a good student but knew you weren’t going to…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Low Income Hinders College Attendance, Even for Top Students
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Data is the New Hot, Drop-dead Gorgeous Field
We all know this already, but it’s nice to get some backing from…
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IT Dashboard and Data from USAspending.gov
Taking another step towards data transparency, the US government provides the IT dashboard…
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Taking a Closer Look at Airplane-Bird Collisions
While we’re on the subject of flight, ever since that plane landed in…
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Explore World Data with Factbook eXplorer from OECD
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) makes a lot of world…
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The Devil is in the Digits?
Photo by Leo Reynolds
Undoubtedly you’ve been seeing a lot of headlines about…
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The Current State of Social Data
Check out my guest post on The Guardian’s Data Blog on the current…
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Poll: Will Data Always Be Just For Geeks?
Photo by penmachine
I threw out a random thought a couple of months…
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Rise of the Data Scientist
Photo by majamarko
As we’ve all read by now, Google’s chief economist Hal…
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What’s Wrong With this Graphic on the Future of Information?
This graphic on the history and future of information has been making the…
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Data.gov is Live – Get Your Data While it’s Hot
Big news. Data.gov is now live. Government data is at your fingertips.
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37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About
You might not know it, but there are actually a ton of data…
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Google Adds Search to Public Data
Google announced today that they have made a small subset of public datasets…
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Tracking Swine Flu Worldwide – Where and How, Plus Data
Just about everywhere you go there’s something in the news about swine flu,…
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Narrow-minded Data Visualization
I was going to let this one slide, but people kept commenting, essentially…
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Millions of Money-in-Politics Data Records Now Available
The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), a research group well-known for its tracking…
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Taking a Look at Facebook Statistics from All Facebook
Facebook started as a spinoff of Hot or Not in 2003. Now Facebook…
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Data Visualization is Only Part of the Answer to Big Data
How can we now cope with a large amount of data and still…
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What’s Wrong With this Financial Bubble Chart?
If there’s anything good that has come out of America’s financial crisis, it’s…
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Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian on Statistics and Data
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be…