Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'statistics'

"Granted, thinking statistically is tricky. We like to construct simple cause-and-effect stories to explain the world as we experience it. “You need to train in this way of thinking. It’s not easy,” says John Allen Paulos, a Temple University mathematician.

That’s precisely the point. We often say, rightly, that literacy is crucial to public life: If you can’t write, you can’t think. The same is now true in math. Statistics is the new grammar."

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may 2010 by sogrady

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Bill James Interview

"Why hasn't this been done? It hasn't been done because there is no general understanding that it can be done or no confidence that the research would reach an accurate result. We're in the process now of building confidence in our work process, up to the level at which people naturally think to ask for our input."

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april 2010 by sogrady

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I concur

Google's economist thinks new jobs will be in stats #machinelearning #statistics (awesome that lines up with my thinking)

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march 2010 by sogrady

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It's time to stop reporting on the "wind chill." - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine

who knew that wind chill was such an artificial, woefully imprecise statistic?

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january 2010 by sogrady

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The Decade In Data - Forbes.com

tells an interesting story

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Good Data and Flawed Conclusions - WSJ.com

Simpson's paradox is interesting and highly relevant to those seeking to draw meaningful conclusions from data

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december 2009 by sogrady

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Police fighting crime in city by the numbers | Portland Press Herald

using data to prevent crime

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter (NoSQL East 2009)

from a Twitter employee, no less.

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Against 'Moneyball' | The New Republic

the People's Exhibit A, for the failure of Professional Sports Writing to devote even a modicum of attention to understanding trends and developments affecting the sport they cover

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october 2009 by sogrady

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Re: [opensocial-and-gadgets-spec] Re: Make JSON-RPC a MUST instead of a MAY - Evan Gilbert - com.googlegroups.opensocial-and-gadgets-spec - MarkMail

"As an informational point, Google's has 4 times as much inbound RPC traffic as compared to REST traffic. And that may underestimate the difference, as RPCs can contain more than one request in a batch." - interesting

rpc rest google metrics statistics via:dave
october 2009 by sogrady

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Are Algorithms the Magic Bullet? - Caleb Elston

magic bullet might be pushing it, but not by much

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august 2009 by sogrady

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The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics

"We tend to think of our physical selves as a system that's simply too complex to comprehend. But what we've learned from companies like Google is that if you can collect enough data, there's no need for a grand theory to explain a phenomenon. You can observe it all through the numbers. Everything is data. You are your data, and once you understand that data, you can act on it."

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june 2009 by sogrady

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More Americans Work From Home :: The Daily Stat :: April 23, 2009 :: HarvardBusiness.org

"But while occasional telecommuting has increased, the percentage of telecommuters who do so regularly has declined. 5% fewer telecommuters worked from home at least once a week in 2008 than in 2006. During the same period, the percentage of telecommuters who worked from home almost every day dropped by 11%."

telecommuting work home workplace statistics numbers
may 2009 by sogrady

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King Kaufman - Salon

"Sabermetric analysis is used not just by a wide swath of baseball fans and chroniclers, but also in baseball front offices. It's relied heavily upon by, among others, the Boston Red Sox, who have been one of the most successful franchises in baseball this century, winning two of the last five World Series, and by the Rays, who beat the Sox on the way to the Series last year.

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january 2009 by sogrady

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Elijah’s Blog » Blog Archive » GNOME DVCS Survey results

interesting results from looking at DVCS preferences w/in the GNOME community. git looks like the clear winner from here.

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january 2009 by sogrady

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IBM | Syndication | Podcast | IBM and the Future of Baseball

not nearly as cool as i thought it would be: extremely basic in its content and approach. it seems aimed solely at people who have no idea that statistics have been applied to baseball. too bad.

sports metrics ibm future baseball statistics via:michael
november 2008 by sogrady

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This Math Whiz Called It for Obama Months Ago - NYTimes.com

a bit late with this, but a well earned curtain call for Nate Silver, of 538 fame

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Where the oil comes from: Not from where I thought « Jon Udell

"When I do these kinds of exercises, I’m always struck by two things. First, it amazes me how much of what we think we know is wrong. I was sure that the Middle East was the dominant regional source.

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org

an interesting, and potentially very useful, project

memeorandum visualization statistics politics greasemonkey
october 2008 by sogrady

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Linux kernel swear counts

this is very funny

visualization swearing statistics linux kernel via:ryan
september 2008 by sogrady

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The Open Source Census Reports: Summary and Participant Demographics

the distro penetration is particularly interesting

linux distro statistics opensource census openlogic
april 2008 by sogrady

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68% of Americans suffer disconnection anxiety, should probably go outside - Engadget

i know a small horde of people that suffer from this

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march 2008 by sogrady

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State of the Computer Book Market, part 4 -- The Lanugages - O'Reilly Radar

never authoritative, but always interesting

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march 2008 by sogrady

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The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office

focusing on the features that get used is a much better play than feature parity, which is neverending and a fool's errand

microsoft office statistics trends usage
february 2008 by sogrady

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TweetStats :: for sogrady

interesting, but as Alex said nothing too surprising jumped out at me.

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january 2008 by sogrady

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BBTF's Transaction Oracle Discussion :: 2008 ZiPS Projections - Boston Red Sox

couple of these seem a bit off - i'd take the under on Papi, for example and the over on Drew (seriously) - but it otherwise looks very reasonable

boston redsox baseball bbtf statistics metrics zips
january 2008 by sogrady

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collectd - The system statistics collection daemon

interesting systems metrics collection daemon. i hear they've been getting some interesting contributions of late.

collectd sysadmin statistics monitoring linux via:jdub
january 2008 by sogrady

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Virtualization in the Enterprise Survey: Your Virtualized State in 2008

the surprising thing to me? do a simple find on 'managment'

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Tim Bray on Ruby on Rails

Joe pushes back to Tim's Rails predictions. i'm in between, though like some of the commenters i am skeptical of the authority of Google Trends posts

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Pressmeddelande - Number of conflicts in the world no longer declining

filed under "things i'm not surprised about"

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Boston Red Sox Playoff Picture - Sports Club Stats

thanks to Ken for sending this over to me: some very interesting math going on to compute probability, likelihood, and so on

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august 2007 by sogrady

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Stats

Fedora stats via smolt via:Michael

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Statistically Speaking | MVN - Most Valuable Network » Blog Archive » Is David Ortiz a clutch hitter?

interesting, and measured, look at Ortiz' clutch statistics - as Mnookin points out, according to Bill James, just because clutch hitters cannot currently be measured accurately does not mean that they do not exist; like this guy, i'm just happy he's ours

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march 2007 by sogrady

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FIRE JOE MORGAN: This Is Why This Site Exists

"Saying that VORP undermines 'enjoyment' and the 'human factor' is like creationists saying that evolution takes away the 'wonder' and 'mystery' of the universe. It doesn't. It makes it awesomer." - heaven forbid we try to understand the game better

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Lucas’ Blog » Blog Archive » Who is using Debian’s and Ubuntu’s development versions ?

some interesting - if statistically problematical - insights into the difference in spread between usage of development versions

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august 2006 by sogrady

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Andi Gutmans' Weblog: PHP 5 Adoption has Tipped!

Andi's seeing good movement from PHP 4 to PHP 5

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july 2006 by sogrady

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The Joy of Sox: El Rey

some further evidence for Pedro's greatness