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BlogsTags > statisticsFour short links: 13 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 13, 2013 Exploiting a Bug in Google Glass — unbelievably detailed and yet easy-to-follow explanation of how the bug works, how the author found it, and how you can exploit it too. The second guide was slightly more technical, so when he … Simpler workflow tools enable the rapid deployment of modelsBy Ben LoricaApril 21, 2013 Data science often depends on data pipelines, that involve acquiring, transforming, and loading data. (If you’re fortunate most of the data you need is already in usable form.) Data needs to be assembled and wrangled, before it can be visualized … R as a programming languageBy Courtney NashApril 11, 2013 Garrett Grolemund is an O’Reilly author and teaches classes on data analysis for R Studios. We sat down to discuss why data scientists, statisticians, and programmers alike can use the R language to make data analysis easier and more powerful. … Four short links: 4 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 4, 2013 Hands on Learning (HuffPo) — Unfortunately, engaged and enlightened tinkering is disappearing from contemporary American childhood. (via BoingBoing) FlashProxy (Stanford) — a miniature proxy that runs in a web browser. It checks for clients that need access, then conveys data … Four short links: 4 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 4, 2013 sslh — ssh/ssl multiplexer. Github Says No to Bots (Wired) — what’s interesting is that bots augmenting photos is awesome in Flickr: take a photo of the sky and you’ll find your photo annotated with stars and whatnot. What can … Visualization of the Week: Evaluating basketball teams as networksBy Jenn WebbDecember 19, 2012 Had the Lakers consulted with Arizona State University (ASU) researchers Jennifer Fewell and Dieter Armbruster, they might have gone a different way after firing coach Mike Brown. Nonetheless, current Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni may be wise to consult Fewell and … Four short link: 27 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 27, 2012 Statistical Misdirection Master Class — examples from Fox News. The further through the list you go, the more horrifying^Wedifying they are. Some are clearly classics from the literature, but some are (as far as I can tell) newly developed graphical … Four short links: 10 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 10, 2012 An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra — Here’s the linear algebra introduction I wish I had. I wish I’d had it, too. (via Hacker News) Think Bayes — an introduction to Bayesian statistics using computational methods. The State of Javascript … Four short links: 9 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 9, 2012 Finland Crowdsourcing New Laws (GigaOm) — online referenda. The Finnish government enabled something called a “citizens’ initiative”, through which registered voters can come up with new laws – if they can get 50,000 of their fellow citizens to back them … Digging into the UDID data
By Alasdair AllanSeptember 6, 2012 Over the weekend the hacker group Antisec released one million UDID records that they claim to have obtained from an FBI laptop using a Java vulnerability. In reply the FBI stated: The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that … Four short links: 8 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 7, 2012 Reconstructing Visual Experiences (PDF) — early visual areas represent the information in movies. To demonstrate the power of our approach, we also constructed a Bayesian decoder by combining estimated encoding models with a sampled natural movie prior. The decoder provides … Four short links: 2 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 2, 2012 Patton Oswalt’s Letters to Both Sides — You guys need to stop thinking like gatekeepers. You need to do it for the sake of your own survival. Because all of us comedians after watching Louis CK revolutionize sitcoms and comedy … Four short links: 16 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 16, 2012 Britain To Provide Free Access to Scientific Publications (Guardian) — the Finch report is being implemented! British universities now pay around £200m a year in subscription fees to journal publishers, but under the new scheme, authors will pay “article processing … Kickstarter Stats Page - Project Failure Analysis
By Kevin ShockeyJune 23, 2012 In nearly every famous example of project success, it is almost always due to prior preparation. Anyone considering launching a Kickstarter project, remember this: "Nearly every key business indicator of the past must be discarded." Social engagement over the Internet is the only metric that matters. Celebrity and "stardom" is earned, like trust. Four short links: 11 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 11, 2012 Stanford Med School Contemplates Flipped Classroom -- the real challenge isn't sending kids home with videos to watch, it's using tools like OceanBrowser to keep on top of what they're doing. Few profs at universities have cared whether students learned or not. Inclusive Tech Companies Win The Talent War (Gina Trapani) -- she speaks the truth, and gently. The... Four short links: 4 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 4, 2012 Common Statistical Fallacies (Flowing Data) -- once you know to look for them, you see them everywhere. Or is that confirmation bias? Project Hijack -- Hijacking power and bandwidth from the mobile phone's audio interface. Creating a cubic-inch peripheral sensor ecosystem for the mobile phone. Peak Plastic -- Deb Chachra points out that if we’re running out of oil,... Understanding randomness is a double-edged sword January 5, 2012 While Leonard Mlodinow's book offers a good introduction to probabilistic thinking, it carries two problems: First, it doesn't uniformly account for skill. Second, when we're talking probability and statistics, we're talking about interchangeable events. Understanding randomness is a double-edged swordBy Mike LoukidesJanuary 5, 2012 While Leonard Mlodinow's book offers a good introduction to probabilistic thinking, it carries two problems: First, it doesn't uniformly account for skill. Second, when we're talking probability and statistics, we're talking about interchangeable events. Four short links: 13 September 2011
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 13, 2011 Dan Saffer: How To Lie with Design Research (Google Video) -- Experience shows that, especially with qualitative research like the type designers often do, two researchers can look at the same set of data and draw dramatically different findings from them. As William Blake said, "Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read... Four short links: 2 September 2011
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 2, 2011 Invisible Autoupdater: An App's Best Feature -- Gina Trapani quotes Ben Goodger on Chrome: The idea was to give people a blank window with an autoupdater. If they installed that, over time the blank window would grow into a browser. Crackpot Apocalypse -- analyzing various historical pronouncements of the value of pi, paper author concludes "When πt is 1,... Four short links: 20 July 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 20, 2011 Random Khan Exercises -- elegant hack to ensure repeatability for a user but difference across users. Note that they need these features of exercises so that they can perform meaningful statistical analyses on the results. Float, the Netflix of Reading (Wired) -- an interesting Instapaper variant with a stab at an advertising business model. I would like to stab... Four short links: 23 June 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJune 23, 2011 The Wisdom of Communities -- Luke Wroblewski's notes from Derek Powazek's talk at Event Apart. Wisdom of Crowds theory shows that, in aggregate, crowds are smarter than any single individual in the crowd. See this online in most emailed features, bit torrent, etc. Wise crowds are built on a few key characteristics: diversity (of opinion), independence (of other ideas),... Four short links: 14 June 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJune 14, 2011 ASCII Flow -- create ASCII diagrams. Awesome. (via Hacker News) Principles of Uncertainty -- probability and statistics textbook, for maths students to build up to understanding Bayesian reasoning. Playable Archaeology: An Interview with the Telehacks Anonymous Creator (Andy Baio) -- The inspiration was my son. I had shown him the old movies Hackers, Wargames, and Colossus: The Forbin Project... Four short links: 19 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 19, 2011 Right to Access the Internet -- a survey of different countries' rights to access to access the Internet. Peace Through Statistics -- three ex-Yugoslavian statisticians nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. In war-torn and impoverished countries, statistics provides a welcome arena in which science runs independent of ethnicity and religion. With so few resources, many countries are graduating few, if... Four short links: 21 March 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 21, 2011 Javascript Trie Performance Analysis (John Resig) -- if you program in Javascript and you're not up to John's skill level (*cough*) then you should read this and follow along. It's a ride-along in the brain of a master. Think Stats -- an introduction to statistics for Python programmers. (via Edd Dumbill) Bolefloor -- they build curvy wooden floors. Instead... Four short links: 10 January 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 10, 2011 Tools and Practices for Working Virtually -- a detailed explanation of how the RedMonk team works virtually. Twitter Accounts for All Stack Overflow Users by Reputation (Brian Bondy) -- superawesome list of clueful people. The Wonderful World of Early Computing -- from bones to the ENIAC, some surprising and interesting historical computation devices. (via John D. Cook) Overlapping Experiment... Four short links: 31 December 2010
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 31, 2010 The Joy of Stats -- Hans Rosling's BBC documentary on statistics, available to watch online. Best Tech Writing of 2010 -- I need a mass "add these to Instapaper" button. (via Hacker News) Google Shared Spaces: Why We Made It (Pamela Fox) -- came out of what people were trying to do with Google Wave. The Great Delicious Exodus... Strata Week: Running the numbers 
By Julie SteeleDecember 9, 2010 IA Ventures raises a huge first-time fund; MathJax provides an open source mathematical display engine; Kevin Drum shares 10 statistics pitfalls; and Paul Bradshaw explains how to bring big data down to a human scale. Strata Week: Statistically speaking
By Julie SteeleOctober 21, 2010 In this edition of Strata Week: The London Stock Exchange moves from .Net to open source; learn how graphical scales can lie; the Euroean Central Bank president calls for better financial statistics; and we bid farewell to the father of fractals. Four short links: 21 September 2010
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 21, 2010 Mustache -- templates without the if/then/loop control structures that mangle your separation of logic. (via the technology behind #newtwitter) The Visionary's Lament (Eric Ries) -- love the possibly apocryphal Amazon story about the invention of one-click. TimeFlow -- helps you analyze temporal data. Timeline, Calendar, Bar Chart, Table, and List views. From the legendary team of Viegas and Wattenberg... Four short links: 25 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 25, 2010 Why Narrative and Structure are Important (Ed Yong) -- Ed looks at how Atul Gawande's piece on death and dying, which is 12,000 words long, is an easy and fascinating read despite the length. Understanding Science (Berkeley) -- simple teaching materials to help students understand the process of science. (via BoingBoing comments) Sax: Symbolic Aggregate approXimation -- SAX is... Four short links: 17 June 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJune 17, 2010 What is IBM's Watson? (NY Times) -- IBM joining the big data machine learning race, and hatching a Blue Gene system that can answer Jeopardy questions. Does good, not great, and is getting better. Google Lays Out its Mobile Strategy (InformationWeek) -- notable to me for Rechis said that Google breaks down mobile users into three behavior groups: A.... Four short links: 24 May 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMay 24, 2010 Google Documents API -- permissions, revisions, search, export, upload, and file. Somehow I had missed that this existed. Profile of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange (Sydney Morning Herald) -- he draws no salary, is constantly on the move, lived for a while in a compound in Nairobi with other NGOs, and cowrote the rubberhose filesystem which offers deniable encryption. OpenPCR... Four short links: 16 March 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 16, 2010 Government is an Elephant (Public Strategist) -- if Government is to be a platform, it will end up competing with the members of its ecosystems (the same way Apple's Dashboard competed with Konfabulator, and Google's MyMaps competed with Platial). If you think people squawk when a company competes, just wait until the competition is taxpayer-funded .... Recordings from NoSQL... Four short links: 5 March 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 5, 2010 Rapportive -- a simple social CRM built into Gmail. They replace the ads in Gmail with photos, bio, and info from social media sites. (via ReadWrite Web) Best Practices in Web Development with Django and Python -- great set of recommendations. (via Jon Udell's article on checklists) Think Like a Statistician Without The Math (Flowing Data) -- Finally, and... Four short links: 19 February 2010
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 19, 2010 How to Seasonally Adjust Data -- Most statisticians, economists and government agencies that report data use a method called the X12 procedure to adjust data for seasonal patterns. The X12 procedure and its predecessor X11, which is still widely used, were developed by the U.S. Census Bureau. When applied to a data series, the X12 process first estimates effects... Four short links: 17 December 2009
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 17, 2009 New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable -- "I'm going to take my new device wherever I go," said Larson, holding the expensive item directly in the eyeline of several reporters. "That way no one on the street, inside the elevator, or at my place of business will ever mistake me for the sort of individual who does not own... Four short links: 16 December 2009
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 16, 2009 OECD Broadband Portal -- global data on broadband penetration and pricing available from June 2009. Easy Statistics for A/B Testing -- it really is easy. And it mentions hamsters. This is worth reading. (via Hacker News) last.fm's SSD Streaming Infrastructure -- Each single SSD can support around 7000 concurrent listeners, and the serving capacity of the machine topped out... Four short links: 5 November 2009
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 5, 2009 Heat Maps in R -- We used financial data here because it's easier to access than the airline data, but it's actually a pretty interesting way of looking at a financial time series. Weekend and holiday effects are a bit more obvious, and it's a bit like being able to see the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly closes all... Four short links: 14 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 13, 2009 Page2Pub -- harvest wiki content and turn it into EPub and PDF. See also Sony dropping its proprietary format and moving to EPub. Open standards rock. (via oreillylabs on Twitter) SQL Pie Chart -- an ASCII pie chart, drawn by SQL code. Horrifying and yet inspiring. Compare to PostgreSQL code to produce ASCII Mandelbrot set. (via jdub on Twitter... Four short links: 13 August 2009
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 12, 2009 Under the Hood of App Inventor for Android -- regular readers know I'm a big fan of visual programming language Scratch, and apparently Google are too. They've got twelve university classes testing App Inventor for Android, a visual connect-the-bits programming environment for Android. University classes probably because one of the co-creators is Hal Abelson, coauthor of the definitive programming... Making Government Transparent Using R
By James TurnerJuly 14, 2009 With Open Source now considered an accepted part of the software industry, some people are starting to wonder if we can't bring the same degree of openness and innovation into government. Danese Cooper, who is actively involved in the open source community through her work with the Open Source Initiative and Apache, as well as working as an R wonk for Revolution Computing, would love to see the government become more open. Part of that openness is being able to access and interpret the mass of data that the government collects, something Cooper thinks R would be a great tool for. She'll be talking about R and Open Government at O'Reilly's Open Source Conference, OSCON. Four short links: 7 July 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 6, 2009 Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them -- Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen. Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed. I have noticed this myself. It must be balanced... Four short links: 28 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 28, 2009 Viral Epidemics Poised to go Mobile -- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (author of Linked: How Everything Is Connected To Everything Else) modelled mobile phone virus epidemiology for NSF and concluded that (in accordance with experience) no single OS has critical mass for viruses to break-out. I wonder: will Android or iPhone reach that point first? (via ACM TechNews) Socrata -- formerly... Big Data: SSD's, R, and Linked Data Streams
By Ben LoricaMay 4, 2009 The Solid State Storage Revolution: If you haven't seen it, I recommend you watch Andy Bechtolsheim's keynote at the recent Mysqlconf. We covered SSD's in our just published report on Big Data management technologies. Since then, we've gotten additional signals from our network of alpha geeks and our interest in them remains high. R and Linked Data Streams: I had... Data chef: SPSS Tripe Consommé
By Uche OgbujiMay 1, 2009 The data chef discusses translation of data from SPSS format, for those who don't have a licensed copy at hand. Responding to Morozov on Twitter's "Power to Misinform"
By Timothy M. O'BrienApril 26, 2009 In Foreign Policy, Evgeny Morozov writes about Twitters power to misinform in the context of the emerging Swine Flu crisis. In his article he brings up concerns about the use of Twitter to spread misinformation and makes some broad generalizations about the motivations of the average Twitter. In this article, I response to some of the things Morozov has to say about the validity of analyzing Twitter trends. Bailouts, Burnouts and Non-Linear Innovation 
By Kurt CagleDecember 10, 2008 Think fractally, think non-linear, and help those of your linear friends, neighbors and political representatives who can't conceive that tomorrow will not be like today to understand that linear thinking is a dangerous, deceptive illusion. Between Earth and Sky
By Harold DavisSeptember 23, 2008 On our way home from a sunset-to-night hike on the Tomales Point fork of Point Reyes, Mark and I stopped at the wreck of the Point Reyes fishing trawler. Many people like to photograph this trawler, which is easily accessible outside of Inverness, California. Between Earth and Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The week before, at... Master Statistics September 18, 2008 Head First Statistics — Wouldn't it be great if there were a statistics book that made histograms, probability distributions, and chi square analysis more enjoyable than going to the dentist? Head First Statistics brings this typically dry subject to life, teaching statistics through engaging, interactive, and thought-provoking material, full of puzzles, stories, quizzes, visual aids, and real-world examples. This book satisfies the requirements for passing the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics Exam. Learn more. 1 to 50 of 51 Next Stay Connected
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