Martin Krzywinski, whose previous work includes Circos, digs deep into the presidential debate…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Lexical Analysis of Presidential Debates and the Windbag Index
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Who’s Leading Whom? Predictive Markets Versus Polls
This is a guest post from Michael Drumheller, Dirk Karis, Raif Majeed and…
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New York Times Rolls Out Campaign Finance API
The New York Times announced the opening of their Developer Network a couple…
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3 Applications that Tap Into the Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki writes in The Wisdom of Crowds that the group is smarter…
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OneGeology Wants to Be Geological Equivalent of Google Maps
There’s lots of free geographical data about what’s going on at the surface…
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If You’re a Criminal on the Run, Don’t Use GPS
With all the new technologies we’ve come to rely on, it’s easy to…
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FlowingData Cited in Forbes Magazine?
Whaaa? Cool beans.…
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What Do People Want to Do With Their Lives?
43 Things is a goal-setting community where people set goals, cheer each other…
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Our Non-ability to Misunderstand Statistics of Rare Events
Cory Doctorow from The Guardian writes about our inability to understand the statistics…
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Statistics is a Diverse Field With Different Paths of Study
It’s a focused expertise, but statistcs can be applied to a broad range of fields that produce data.
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U.S. Census Bureau’s 2008 Statistical Abstract – Looking at America’s Data
The U.S. Census Bureau released their 2008 Statistical Abstract, the National Data Book,…
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The Safest Seat to Sit In On a Plane is…
Popular Mechanics did a study on where it was safest to sit on…
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Why Did Andy Dufresne Escape from Shawshank?
To tell a complete and meaningful story, you need to have and provide all the context.
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Data and Statistics For Human Rights
Patrick Ball, a human rights statistician, finds truth in numbers while analyzing and…
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Atheist Statistics For 2008 – Do You Believe These?
This video shows statistics centered around atheism, claiming that atheism is correlated with…
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Reflecting on Life After Statistics – R.I.P. Minghui Yu
Rachel, one of the organizers of Columbia’s Life After Statistics, reflects on lessons…
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What Can You Do With a Degree In Statistics? – A Follow Up
This past Friday, Columbia University stat graduate students hosted a symposium on careers…
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World Internet City-to-City Connections and Density Maps
Chris Harrison put together a series of Internet maps that show how cities…
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Translating Data Into Information that Changes Us
Wondering what statistics is for? This is what.
Data are a whole lot… -
What Are You Going to Do With Your PhD in Statistics?
Statistics graduate students at Columbia University are hosting a symposium on careers for…