Statistics

Just about everywhere you go there’s something in the news about swine flu,…

I was going to let this one slide, but people kept commenting, essentially…

The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), a research group well-known for its tracking…

Facebook started as a spinoff of Hot or Not in 2003. Now Facebook…

How can we now cope with a large amount of data and still…

If there’s anything good that has come out of America’s financial crisis, it’s…

I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be…

The Barack Obama administration is clearly making an effort to get information out…

I know next to nothing about the economy, stocks, and investments, but I…

Google recently released Google Latitude, which is an online application that lets you…

Graduate student researchers are pretty much putting sensors in everything these days. There’s…

Philip from infochimps posts the results of some heavy Twitter scraping. Data for…

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It happened again. I told someone I study statistics.…

I thought this was a joke when I first read it, but scientists…

It was really only a matter of time, but Amazon now hosts public…

StateStats is like Google Insights but on a state level. Type in a…

Neighborhood Boundaries by Tom Taylor uses Flickr Shapefiles and Yahoo! Geoplanet “to show…

Where do you think the US imports the most oil from? Most of…

It was just a little over a week ago that The New York…

Terry Pettijohn and Brian Jungeberg of Mercyhurst College took a very close look…