Studies on names and performance seem to be all the rage right now:…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Does Your Name Affect How You Perform in Life?
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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…
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Access Restrictions on the Release of Gun Sales Data
I just found this in my draft folder from a while back. It’s…
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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…