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My friend had an interview with Google during which they asked him this interesting question: A man gets on a plane with n seats, but he has lost his ticket. So this man randomly chooses a seat. The next guy gets on the plane with his ticket. He goes to his seat, if it is…
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“A critique of Chernoff faces.” Cheers.
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“37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About.” Cheers.
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If graphical displays of data get you going, you should go to Chartporn.org. Cheers.
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From Charles Blow’s blog, By The Numbers:Red (Light) States. Cheers.
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A fantastic graphic: “Mountains out of Molehills: A time-line of global media scare stories.” Cheers.
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Form the Freakonomics blog: “The Value of Statistics“. I like the last line of this post: “It goes to show that thinking up the right regression to run can be worth millions.” Cheers.
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Earlier this year the Pew research group released some interesting findings on “Religious Groups’ Views on Earth Warming Evidence”. If you want, you can download the actual data set, as well as many other interesting data sets, directly from their site. Cheers.
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I took a multivariate class several years ago and towards the end of the semester the professor showed us Chernoff faces. I was thinking about them for some reason tonight, and so I figured I’d do a search for Chernoff faces on the internet. Here is an interesting application of Chernoff faces to MLB managers.…
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Ever play Risk and notice the first person has a huge advantage? Apparently, Andrew Gelman has too, and he offers a simple solution to the problem here. Cheers.
