Statistical Visualization

Two Google research groups, Big Picture and Music Intelligence, got together and made…

When you watch sports, it can sometimes feel like the stat guy pulls…

In 1976, Dwight E. Robinson, an economist at the University of Washington, studied…

New Year’s is a worldwide event, but as we know, it doesn’t happen…

Engineering and psychology researchers in Finland investigated where we feel and don’t feel.…

Computer science PhD student Randy Olson likes to analyze reddit in his spare…

For the downtime post-turkey. James Trimble stuck the top 200 reddits of all…

Presented mostly for my fond memories as a grade schooler, with a fresh…

Dan Delany took a simple look at furloughed employees due to the government…

Weddings are special events where friends and family come together to celebrate, and…

Forecast, one of the best if not the best quick-look weather sites, uses…

Allison McCann for Businessweek graphed rappers’ claimed wealth in their songs versus their…

Vivien Marx in Nature Methods:
Data from an experiment may appear rock solid.…

Damien Hirst is an artist known for a number of works, one of…

Hadley Wickham gives a two-hour video tutorial on how to use his ggplot2 package in R. I have limited experience with it, but a lot of people really like it and use the package exclusively for their visual analysis needs.

The central limit theorem:
In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states…

The quality of television shows follow all kinds of patterns. Some shows stink…

Stephen Wolfram analyzed the Facebook world, based on anonymized data from the Wolfram|Alpha…