based on google suggest data

Benford's law

A Tutorial on Clustering Algorithms

A free book on probability and statistics with R - #rstats /via @paulblaser

Brien Lane. Actual demographics taken from the 1996 Australian census. The whole alleyway has been painted with statistical information - those lines are bar charts.

The Prediction API enables access to Google's machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes. Upload your data to Google Storage for Developers, then use the Prediction API to make real-time decisions in your applications. The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant information to your users. Run your predictions on Google's infrastructure and scale effortlessly as your data grows in size and complexity.

Watch Online Data Mining Tutorial with RapidMiner 5.0

How to split up the US: what facebook tells us about the shape of the country. More: (via @brady)

...It's time to fight back.

The solution we're creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian or similar analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity is not a binary distinction, but rather a matter of degree. To this end, we're collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale.

Stanford course in data visualization

New post by @monkchips "blew my head clean off". How many so-called “soc media experts” have read any network theory?" http://bit.ly/2hfWSc

pdf available online

Just realized that my old friend and information visualization wizard @wattenberg is on Twitter. Check this out: http://bit.ly/2MdMUH

"Analysis is the mother of invention" - good article on models of investion and the role of statistical analysis http://bit.ly/4mVIpY

It is possible to see the underlying grammatical structure of the Indus script even if the scientists don't know what each word means. Such a model is stage one for decipherment, because any meaning ascribed to a symbol must make sense in the context of other symbols that precede or follow it.

R stats package and Sweave

This is to energy and climate what Freakonomics is to economics: an accessible, meaty, by-the-numbers look at the physics and practicalities of energy. MacKay, a Cambridge Physics prof, approaches the subject of carbon and sustainability with a scientific, numeric eye.

svd and congressional records

using svd to cluster blog political linking

When this man said the world’s economy was heading for disaster, he was scorned. Now traders, economists, even Nasa, are clamouring to hear him speak

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