“37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About.”
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If graphical displays of data get you going, you should go to Chartporn.org.
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A fantastic graphic: “Mountains out of Molehills: A time-line of global media scare stories.”
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Two interesting posts from Frontloading HQ:
“A Closer look at the Aftermath of the 2010 Census”
“2012 Presidential Race: August PPP Trial Heats In-Depth“.Cheers.
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Eric Bruntlett’s unassisted triple play ended the Phillies-Mets game last night. It was the 15th unassisted triple play in MLB history.
From 1909-1927, there were 7 unassisted triple plays, and, since 1992, there have been 7 more unassisted triple plays. The striking thing here is that from 1927-1992, 64 seasons, there was only one unassisted triple play. At the beginning of the century there were 7 in 19 years, about 1 every 2.71 year. In the most recent 18 years, there have been 7 for a rate of 1 ever 2.57 years. Then for the entire middle of the 20th century there was one in 64 seasons.
Here is a graph of index number of triple play versus the year in which it took place:
Does anyone have any explanation as to how this could happen? All I can think of is that it might be possible that hit and runs were more popular during the periods of high triple play prevalence, making it easier to turn one. If anyone has any thoughts on this I would love to hear them.
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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.”
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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.
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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. This got me excited so I did a google search for “R faces” hoping to find an R package for Chernoff faces, however, this search yielded this web site. The headline on that web site says: “French rapper Monsieur R faces up to three years in prison and a 75,000-euro fine for referring to France as a ‘slut’ and a ‘bitch’ and saying ‘I piss on Napoleon and General de Gaulle’ on his latest album.” Not quite what I was looking for, but completely fantastic. God Bless the internet.
After another quick search, I downloaded this R Package. And now I’ve spent all night “Chern”-ing out Chernoff Faces.
Here is one for a few selected MLB hitters:
Here is one for a few selected MLB pitchers:
And here is my favorite about the economy (Data is from here):
I especially like how the Chernoff faces get smaller and actually appear to get sadder as the economy worsens. I guess it’s so bad that even Chernoff’s faces are feeling the recession.
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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.
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