I just found this in my draft folder from a while back. It’s…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Access Restrictions on the Release of Gun Sales Data
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New Journal: Technology Innovations in Statistics Education
Technology Innovations in Statistics Education (TISE) is a new e-journal that was just…
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Education Statistics Free, Available, and Waiting for You
Raw, fine-grain data is still a bit hard to come by. Summary statistics…
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New York Mets Not Looking So Good
I’ve never really been interested in baseball. I’ve always been more of a…
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Misleading Map of Buffalo Snow
I saw this map of the average snow levels in Buffalo. I think…
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A Repetitive Hate for Statistics
When I tell people that I’m a graduate student in Statistics, there are…
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Published Data and Results Not Always Legit
In a previous life, I thought anything published in an academic journal was…
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Second Day of New York Taxi Strikes
As the second day of the New York taxi strike begins over GPS…
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360 Variables Describing the United States
Order From Randomness has an extensive data collection featuring 360 variables describing all…
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Decline of U.S. Men’s Tennis
With more Many Eyes fun, Aron Pilhofer put in part 2 of his…
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Exploring Twitter with Blocks
On their new exploration section, Twitter blocks is available for viewing and use.…
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Breaking Up the Face into Elements
I’m not even going to pretend I know anything about how Statistics and…
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Don’t want to share our data / OK, what’re you hiding?
I don’t want my credit card numbers floating around, because then I’d be…
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U.S. News & World Report College Rankings are Now Available
The well-known college rankings are now available for your viewing pleasure. Whether the…
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My Mission is to Collect Basic Data
I began my path of higher education at Berkeley as an Electrical Engineering…
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The World Needs Statisticians
While doing research on the process of rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina…
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Proving the Non-experts Wrong
UPDATE: I found the essay! Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will…
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TED Talk: What do we really know about the spread of AIDS?
In her TED talk, Emily Oster challenges our conception of AIDS and suggests…
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Making Public Data Public
As Jon Udell has mentioned, there’s a ton of data online, but it’s…
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Finding Weirdness in Temperature Data
After parsing Weather Underground pages to grab temperature data, it’s time to look…