Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

All You Can Eat at the Twitter Data Buffet

Data Sources

Philip from infochimps posts the results of some heavy Twitter scraping. Data for…
Do You Hate Statistics as Much as Everyone Else?

Statistics

Photo by Darwin Bell
It happened again. I told someone I study statistics.…
Scientists Can Now Map Your Dreams to an Image

Statistics

I thought this was a joke when I first read it, but scientists…
Amazon Gets In On the Public Data Arena

Data Sources

It was really only a matter of time, but Amazon now hosts public…
Guess What State Searches for ‘Poo’ the Most – StateStats

Maps, Statistics

StateStats is like Google Insights but on a state level. Type in a…
Neighborhood Boundaries with Flickr Shapefiles

Data Sources, Maps

Neighborhood Boundaries by Tom Taylor uses Flickr Shapefiles and Yahoo! Geoplanet “to show…
US Oil Doesn’t Come From Where You Think it Does

Data Sources, Maps

Where do you think the US imports the most oil from? Most of…
New York Times Visualization Lab – Collaboration with Many Eyes

Data Sources / New York Times

It was just a little over a week ago that The New York…
Playboy Playmate Curves and the State of the Economy

Data Sources, Economics

Terry Pettijohn and Brian Jungeberg of Mercyhurst College took a very close look…
Lexical Analysis of Presidential Debates and the Windbag Index

Statistics

Martin Krzywinski, whose previous work includes Circos, digs deep into the presidential debate…
Who’s Leading Whom? Predictive Markets Versus Polls

Statistical Visualization, Statistics

This is a guest post from Michael Drumheller, Dirk Karis, Raif Majeed and…
New York Times Rolls Out Campaign Finance API

Data Sources / New York Times

The New York Times announced the opening of their Developer Network a couple…
3 Applications that Tap Into the Wisdom of Crowds

Social Data Analysis

James Surowiecki writes in The Wisdom of Crowds that the group is smarter…
OneGeology Wants to Be Geological Equivalent of Google Maps

Data Sources, Maps

There’s lots of free geographical data about what’s going on at the surface…
If You’re a Criminal on the Run, Don’t Use GPS

Statistics

With all the new technologies we’ve come to rely on, it’s easy to…
FlowingData Cited in Forbes Magazine?

Data Sources

Whaaa? Cool beans.…
What Do People Want to Do With Their Lives?

Data Sources, Projects, Visualization

43 Things is a goal-setting community where people set goals, cheer each other…
Our Non-ability to Misunderstand Statistics of Rare Events

Statistics

Cory Doctorow from The Guardian writes about our inability to understand the statistics…
Statistics is a Diverse Field With Different Paths of Study

Statistics

It’s a focused expertise, but statistcs can be applied to a broad range of fields that produce data.
U.S. Census Bureau’s 2008 Statistical Abstract – Looking at America’s Data

Data Sources

The U.S. Census Bureau released their 2008 Statistical Abstract, the National Data Book,…

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