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Simply Statistics: On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy

Simply Statistics: On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy.

Presidential Candidates, Search Engine Auto-Complete, and Word Clouds: Frankenstorm Edition

Below are updated word clouds for presidential candidates based on search engine auto-complete.  Here are the word clouds from August 30 and here is the description of what I am doing and the word clouds from August 17.

 

 

Cheers.

R in the wild

Here is an interesting blog post about how Google and Facebook are using the R (Free statistical software) at their companies.

Cheers.