Getting ready for the big game with chips in one hand and betting ticket in the other.
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Who’s Going to Win Super Bowl XLII?
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Weekend Minis – Government, Environment & Angry Employee
For your long-awaited Super Bowl weekend, shed some light on the government and don’t forget to backup your data.
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Bad Statistics Leads to Poor Results and a Questionable Trial Verdict
Oxford mathematician, Peter Donnelly gives a TED talk on the common mistakes we make when interpreting Statistics.
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Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports is Live
I’m quitting graduate school to become a professional sports betting fanatic.
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Walker Tracker – A Community Site for Pedometer Fans
Tracking your foot steps with a pedometer just became social.
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Google Decides to Host a Whole Lot of Scientific Data – Palimpsest Project
The Internet giant is set to take on terabytes of scientific data in the very near future.
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Iraq Body Count: A Human Security Project
Iraq Body Count keeps track of civilian deaths by cross checking media reports…
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Going Beyond Collaborative Visual Analytics with Statistics
Social data visualization is great, but what if it were coupled with quantitative analysis? Imagine the power.
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25 Highest Grossing Films of All Time (Wallpaper)
I love to look at how the current week’s movies are doing at…
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John Tukey and the Beginning of Interactive Graphics
More than 30 years ago, visualization cracked its way into stat.
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Using Data to Find Likely Crime Spots
Fighting crime with statistics isn’t just for television. Now coming to a real life near you.
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Download Detailed Baseball Statistics from the DataBank
Get your free, detailed baseball statistics here, free of charge. Go ahead, have some fun.
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Migration/Demographics Database Available for Download
For our humanflows visualization, we used data from the United Nations Common Database…
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Does Your Name Affect How You Perform in Life?
Studies on names and performance seem to be all the rage right now:…
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Netflix Prize Dataset Visualization
One million dollars goes to whoever can understand the Netflix ratings dataset best.
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Transcript Analyzer for Republican Debate
The New York Times recently put up a cool data exploration tool to…
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Sharing Personal Data to Push Social Data Analysis
I’m staying in a hostel here in Madrid and am currently in the…
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Fast Food Restaurant Menu Items Compared
We all know fast food is incredibly bad for us and yet we…
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100 Reasons You Should Be Interested in, Want to Share, and Get Excited About Data
When I talk about data, people often zone out or don’t really see…
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All Linkin Park Songs Look the Same? Maybe Not.
On Last.fm, someone took snapshots of some Linkin Park songs, compared them, and…