Content tagged statistics
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Unusual betting behaviour at on Intrade is apparently pushing Obama contracts lower than they should be, and exposing arbitrage opportunities. gulfstream/2529
“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
Chris Anderson on the Long Tail: “I’ll end by conceding a point: It’s hard to make money in the Tail.” gulfstream/2554
US Presidents’ approval ratings over time. gulfstream/2576
Differences in consumption per person are much less dramatic than differences in income (in the US): “If we look at consumption per person, the difference … gulfstream/2395
Measuring poverty: in the US, the poverty line for the last 40 years has been set at three times a (very minimal) food budget. This approach has many … gulfstream/2045
Live geographic traffic stats for the BBC news. This is pretty sweet, despite not being very usable. (The colours that represent different traffic levels … gulfstream/2137
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
Delivering bad news: “There were several ways that I could answer Peter’s question. I could give the bald statistics—that more … gulfstream/947
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wikipedia statistics
40,000 requests/second across all assets
Piwik
web analytics software, like google analytics, mint. code seems ... okay, but complicated/over engineered
Charts | Worth a thousand words | Economist.com
National Statistics Online - Living in Britain 2004
The Slow Tail: Time Lag Between Visiting and Buying (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
CIA - The World Factbook - Guide to Country Profiles
Weed - Like mint, but less green, if you know what I mean
Home - Doing Business - The World Bank Group
Visitors - fast web log analyzer
StatCVS - Generate statistcal HTML reports from your CVS repository logs
Stevey's Blog Rants: Math For Programmers
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
Stranger Fruit: Go USA! We're #2 .... kind of ...
Corunet. El blog » The definitive heatmap
details the architecture of the heatmap system
Myths about the developing world (Amazing graphics) (TEDTalks, Hans Rosling) - Google Video
NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons
Matplotlib / pylab - matlab style python plotting (plots, graphs, charts)
nice clean javascript for collecting web stats
Introducing 3D Live Stats
whizzy real-time spinning world showing hits to a website
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
The Web Analytics Graph Collection eSnips Folder
'Beautiful Evidence' Author Edward Tufte and the Triumph of Good Design -- New York Magazine
clickdensity - Evaluate & Improve your Website: Heat Maps & More
RobotReplay - The Next Generation of Web Analytics
WordPress.com Stats « Extend › Plugins
The R Project for Statistical Computing
The Two-Envelope Paradox: A Complete Analysis?
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics
examples of different "modern" visualization techniques
Simpson's paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia