Archive for the ‘ Statistics ’ Category
Drew Conway has a piece on his Zero Intelligence Agents blog about how well informed Tea Party protesters are about tax policy. His analysis is pretty technical and he even offers up the R code he used to analyze the data and build the graphs which were made with a package called ggplot2 by Hadley [ READ MORE ]
Being a stats junkie I’m probably more excited about filling out my Census forms than most people. That said, a lot of my friends have expressed glee at receiving their Census forms. Perhaps that says something about social group. So you can imagine my delight when I came across this giant, inflatable Census form in Union [ READ MORE ]
I don’t mean to shamelessly self-promote here, but I wanted to note that the Slice story on my pizza paper (pdf) has also been picked up by NBC New York’s food blog, Feast, and by Revolution Computing’s blog. For people who don’t know, Revolution Computing optimizes R, the language used by a large number of statisticians for [ READ MORE ]
The Slice article got picked up by MidtownLunch. A lot of people have been asking for my favorite pizza places. The answer depends on what type of pizza I’m looking for, but Maffei’s grandma slice and and Keste are two places that pop into my head a lot. Someone at the ML forum asked about New York [ READ MORE ]
Slice has a nice writeup of a paper I wrote performing a statistical analysis of New York City. The article is nicely written and distills the analysis to the parts people will care about. See here for the corresponding PowerPoint presentation. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Tweet about it Subscribe [ READ MORE ]
I’ve decided to use this space to talk about math, statistics and science applied to everyday things in new or interesting ways. This will not be an overly technical blog, though I will make the hard science behind the posts available when possible. The point is to make science accessible and fun and see how it [ READ MORE ]