A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection Some more details about the trial. Cheers.

Apparently there is something called “follow Friday” on Twitter. NISSSAMSI suggested StatsInTheWild last week. Tweet: “NISSSAMSI #FF @StatsInTheWild @tomanalytics @MathIsMyLife @numberonics @sallycmorton @Ron_Wasserstein @StatisticsNews @StatsMan2886 @statgrrl” sallycmorton is the president of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and Ron_Wasserstein is the Exuctive Director of ASA. Not bad company. Cheers.

Top 25 picks (1) Florida 27 Tennessee 7 Texas Tech 14 (2) Texas 9 (3) USC 17 Washington 16 (4) Alabama 43 North Texas 11 (5) Penn State 38 Temple 19 (5) Mississippi 52 SE Louisiana 15 Florida State 15 (7) BYU 10 (8) Cal 32 Minnesota 22 (9) LSU 14 Louisiana-Lafayette 6 (10) Boise…

Strange Maps. Cheers.

After losing both ends of a slow pitch softball double header this past Sunday, I showed up at my friend’s (Mike) house to watch football. Dejected, I brought over the remnants of a 12 pack of Miller Light from the previous weekend. The following exchange then took place: Mike: “Ugh. Miller Light” Me: “It all…

Looks like Brian Urlacher is out for the year. I wonder how much this injury will affect the Bears (0-1), who looked terrible with Mr. Cutler as their quarterback. If only there was a place to look up this kind of information. Some sort of network of inter-connected ideas….. I was poking around the Freakonomics…

R graph gallery Cheers.

Last year I challenged this guy in the department to a battle of picking colllege football games. We both started with a bankroll of $10,000 (play money of course because (1) we have no money (grad students) and (2) gambling is illegal (and immoral…)) and we had to pick at least five games every week…

Apparently more boys than girls are being born. Here is a full report by the CDC. Cheers.

How do people around the world spend their money? If only there was some sort of interactive chart showing this. Here is an interactive hart showing what the world spends its money on. (I saw this on chartporn.org) Cheers.