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The Change My Son Brought, Seen Through Personal Data
My data point turned six months recently. It was a fast six months, and it was a slow six months. Some days I would play with him, look at my watch, and somehow the whole day passed. Other days,...
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Where People Work and How Much They Make
One of the things that drew me into Statistics is that you can apply it to a variety of fields, and in recent years, more industries hire in-house statisticians (or other varietals of data scientist...
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Looking For the Closest Casino
The New York Times covered casinos in the Northeast and noted that more than half of the population is within 25 miles of a casino. Naturally, I wondered what it is like in other parts of the country,...
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Chart-Topping Songs as Graphs and Diagrams
Billboard ranked the top 100 songs since the creation of their Hot 100 list in 1958. The list is based on airplay and sales. Here are the songs in chart form. Tags: featured, poster
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Famous Movie Quotes as Charts
In celebration of their 100-year anniversary, the American Film Institute selected the 100 most memorable quotes from American cinema, and a few years ago, for kicks and giggles, I put the first eight...
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Gender wage gap, how much less women make than men
Explore weekly earnings between men and women, over the past nine years. There's more to say about it, but my hands are tired from manually editing parsed PDF files, so I'll leave that for later....
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Girls expected to live shorter lives in some counties?
We've seen life expectancy at the country and state levels, but the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a health research center at the University of Washington, recently released life...
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Vehicles involved in fatal crashes
After seeing this map on The Guardian, I was curious about what other data was available from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It turns out there’s a lot and it’s relatively easy to...
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The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011
I almost didn’t make a best-of list this year, but as I clicked through the year’s post, it was hard not to. If last year (and maybe the year before) was the year of the gigantic graphic, this was the...
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Best statistics question ever
By way of Raymond Johnson, the best statistics multiple choice question ever written on a chalkboard. Try not to think too hard. [via] Tags: featured, humor
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