Category: Math Pictures
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Chart Of The Day: 2012 NCAA Tournament Bracket Odds … And Pretty Bubbles Cheers.
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I just came across the article “A Statistician Shares How To Pick Your Super Bowl Pool Like A Champ” at businessinsider.com. The author of the article, Jill Krasny, asked edgehogs.com statistician, William Briggs, for some advice: “You want to pick the scores that are most likely to happen, and look at historical information about how…
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Here is an article I wrote for Significance Magazine about Tom Brady and the Super Bowl called “A Tale of Two Bradys: It was the best of his games; it was the worst of his games.” Go Pats. Cheers.
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I received an email this morning from a friend: “Is there any sort of a statistical breakdown for which are the best numbers to have in a Super Bowl squares pool (for entertainment purposes only)?” Now, if my friend were going to use this information to gamble, it would be highly unethical. However, since he clearly stated…
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Auto-complete terms for republican candidates for 12/28/2011. I searched for these after signing out of google and then I “disabled customizations based on search activity” so my search history would not interfere with the auto-completes. Here is a plot based on the google auto-complete search data. And here is the complete data for Romney, Perry, Cain,…
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If you don’t want to read this whole thing, just check out the graph: Multidimensional Scaling: Republican Candidates – 8/16/2011 I was having a conversation with some friends today and someone mentioned that Rick Perry might have problems in the election because there were rumors he was gay. So I went to google and typed in…
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I’ve been playing around with the faces function from the R package aplpack. I haven’t used it in a while, but there are some new features that I’ve either never noticed before or they are new. Color has been added to the faces and you can now plot the faces. There is also the superfluously fantastic…
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Awesome: The R graphics gallery. Cheers.
