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Delivering bad news: “There were several ways that I could answer Peter’s question. I could give the bald statistics—that more … gulfstream/947
Article by Bjorn Lomborg summarising his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. The book argues that: (1) the threat to the environment isn't as … gulfstream/669
US Presidents’ approval ratings over time. gulfstream/2576
Chris Anderson on the Long Tail: “I’ll end by conceding a point: It’s hard to make money in the Tail.” gulfstream/2554
“If the read/write head [of a hard disk] were a Boeing 747, and the hard-disk platter were the surface of the Earth: The head would fly at Mach 800 At … gulfstream/2553
Unusual betting behaviour at on Intrade is apparently pushing Obama contracts lower than they should be, and exposing arbitrage opportunities. gulfstream/2529
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Why Wine Ratings Are Badly Flawed - WSJ.com
"The judges' wine ratings typically varied by ±4 points on a standard ratings scale running from 80 to 100. A wine rated 91 on one tasting would often be rated an 87 or 95 on the next. Some of the judges did much worse, and only about one in 10 regularly rated the same wine within a range of ±2 points."
Feedjit Pro
Has a realtime (comet?) display of visitors.
Revolutions: Shazam: not magic after all
Bits of Evidence
Slides showing, among other things, how much actual evidence is behind various common assumptions about programming and software development.
eBMJ -- Statistics at Square One
Overview of (basic) statistical concepts, from the British Medical Journal.
Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message « OkTrends
Statistics | Facebook
"More than 120 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day", etc.
Neighbourhood Statistics - Home Page
suprisingly detailed statistics by postcode
OECD Factbook eXplorer for analysing country statistics
Gapminder-style statistics for the OECD. Actually maybe it's pretty much the same data.
Clixpy.com - a Must-Have Usability Tool for Webmasters
"Clixpy tracks everything your site’s users do: mouse movement, clicks, scrolling, form inputs. You can watch and examine videos showing your users’ actions."
St. Petersburg paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How Not To Sort By Average Rating
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right
Piwik
web analytics software, like google analytics, mint. code seems ... okay, but complicated/over engineered
wikipedia statistics
40,000 requests/second across all assets
Charts | Worth a thousand words | Economist.com
Designing Visualizations for Time-Based Data by Max Kiesler
glTail.rb - realtime logfile visualization
Simpson's paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics
examples of different "modern" visualization techniques
The Two-Envelope Paradox: A Complete Analysis?
The R Project for Statistical Computing
WordPress.com Stats « Extend › Plugins
RobotReplay - The Next Generation of Web Analytics
clickdensity - Evaluate & Improve your Website: Heat Maps & More
'Beautiful Evidence' Author Edward Tufte and the Triumph of Good Design -- New York Magazine
The Web Analytics Graph Collection eSnips Folder
Scribd - [ebook][e-book] 16 things it takes most of us 50 years to learn
page not really any good (see snopes), but interesting stats on bottom rhs
Introducing 3D Live Stats
whizzy real-time spinning world showing hits to a website
nice clean javascript for collecting web stats
Matplotlib / pylab - matlab style python plotting (plots, graphs, charts)
NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons
Myths about the developing world (Amazing graphics) (TEDTalks, Hans Rosling) - Google Video
Corunet. El blog » The definitive heatmap
details the architecture of the heatmap system
Stranger Fruit: Go USA! We're #2 .... kind of ...
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
Stevey's Blog Rants: Math For Programmers
StatCVS - Generate statistcal HTML reports from your CVS repository logs
Visitors - fast web log analyzer
Home - Doing Business - The World Bank Group
Weed - Like mint, but less green, if you know what I mean
CIA - The World Factbook - Guide to Country Profiles
The Slow Tail: Time Lag Between Visiting and Buying (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)