statistics

Code for building your own streamgraph is available. You will need to install Processing. Tip from Flowing Data. Update (7 May).   Now available in JavaScript! Read more

For the past decade, all I’ve heard about was problems with undercounting minorities, illegals, and the homeless.  Now it appears the Census Bureau is having trouble counting those of us in plain sight.  Too bad they only had 10 YEARS to prepare. Update (30 March).  Apparently the counting is a bit wacky, too. Read more

Andrew Gelman has a thought-provking post about an ethical problem in the pharmaceutical industry.  This is why you need 6 months salary in the bank, so you can walk away from sleazoids like this. Read more

Tom Siegfried picks a fight on statistics in ScienceNews, and Kaiser Fung pokes him in the eye. Here’s an example of Siegfried’s dopiness: But in fact, there’s no logical basis for using a P value from a single study to draw any conclusion. If the chance of a fluke is less than 5 percent, two Read more

…are here, and maybe here. Tips from Nathan at Flowing Data. Read more

It’s possible to combine two boring subjects, statistics and golf, to get something interesting. Tip from the Social Science Statistics Blog. Read more

Fabulous summary chart of the Olympics alpine events, with sound! Tip from Junk Charts, where they don’t think this one is junk. Read more

Concept maps gone wild over the news. Tip from Flowing Data. Update (2 March).  More details about Newsdot. Read more

Even a chef can do it. Read more

It appears that some ski resorts have been telling stretchers in their weekend snow reports.  Folks with iPhones are calling them on it.  Survey Research Rule One (swiped from economics):  Don’t trust self-reported data. Tip from the Knowledge Problem. Read more