statistics

Any statistician worth his salt knows not to publish work done with dirty data.  Looks like the Obama administration is being run by amateurs. Tip from the Corner. Update (18 November).  Who knows, man, who really knows.     UPDATE (24 November). Another gang of KnowItAlls shows their ass with dirty data, convoluted code, snarky Read more

Geek power!  Nathan gives a step-by-step tutorial on creating a web-based thematic map using nothing but free software.  Windows users can get the (free) Python interpreter here.  Read more

…explained as only the Onion can. Tip from Mark Blumenthal at Pollster.com. Read more

Ten statistical giants who’ve given psychologists all the rope they need to hang themselves. Tip from Andrew Gelman. Read more

The graphics gurus at the New York Times break down unemployment by race, sex, age, and education.  Check it out. Tip from the indefatigable Nathan at Flowing Data. Read more

…from Seth Godin.  Plus, the graphics WOW factor from the Onion. Tip from Andrew Gelman. Read more

The top posters from this year’s Data Expo at JSM are up.  Some interesting takes on airline traffic and flight delays.  Check it out. Tip from Flowing Data. Read more

President Obama gave a speech today, exhorting students to knuckle down: If you quit on school, you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.  What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. I’m reminded of one of Read more

Mark Liberman at Language Log gives a well-documented and righteous smackdown to an educational researcher’s Just-So Story about sex differences in auditory responses. Read more

CMU has just implemented an online database of death risks.  Check it out. Tip from FuturePundit. Read more