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philgyford : Britain's “broken society”: Through a glass darkly | The Economist - Good article on how many things that you'd think would define "broken Britain" have been improving. Britain's better.
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joshua : Learning About Statistical Learning - nice set of references
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joshua : Win-Vector Blog » “I don’t think that means what you think it means;” Statistics to English Translation, Part 1: Accuracy Measures
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philgyford : Statistical analysis, data and graphing | Timetric: making data useful - Datagasm. Loads of data sets available for analysing, exporting, monitoring, fiddling with, etc. (via Blackbeltjones)
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joshua : Elements Of Statistical Learning: now free pdf
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joshua : What is “Bayesian” Statistical Inference? - nice summary
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Linkorama : A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009 - Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
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cameron : R help - adding the mean and standard deviation to boxplots - Useful technique for adding means to boxplots in R
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nelson : How people spend the day - Nice visualization
Rod Begbie : How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Outstanding interactive infographic from the New York Times. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on how Americans spend their time, sliceable by demographic sectors. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : Much Ado About IE6 - Digg confirms what I've long suspected: Most people who still use IE6 have no choice in the matter. They're using computers where they have no say over the web browser installed. [via] #
Andy Baio : Digg's survey of IE6 users - 77% of IE6 users can't upgrade or change browsers because of work
Linkorama : Much Ado About IE6 - Here at Digg, like most sites, the designers, developers, and QA engineers spend a lot of time making sure the site works in IE6, an eight-year-old browser superseded by two full releases. It consumes time that could be spent building the future of Digg.
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Linkorama : E-mail Traffic Data Casts Doubt on Global-Village Theory - Their conclusion is that far from reducing the importance of geographical location, electronic communication appears to have increased it, probably because people swap more messages with those they have personal interaction with.
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Linkorama : Social Networks Eclipse E-Mail - Although Charles Buchwalter, senior vice president for research and analytics for Nielsen, said marketers had yet to master advertising on social media, he predicted that “over the next 12 months a model will emerge” that takes into account “the inf
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11 month ago
philgyford : The Eyewash Station: Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack - "You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack." (via Kottke)
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Linkorama : comScore: Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many - number of people using their mobile device to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009. Among the audience of 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices in January 2
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joshua : Comparison of data analysis packages: R, Matlab, SciPy, Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata - Brendan O'Connor's Blog
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Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | How to understand risk in 13 clicks - Handy explanation of one of the most common statistical tricks. #
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joshua : Steam Hardware Survey
nelson : Steam hardware survey - Snapshot of what Windows gamers have for computers
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Linkorama : My Twitemperature Reveals World's Hottest Twitter User
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Linkorama : Understanding HP Lab's Twitter Research - You can read the free Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope (PDF). Written in an academic style, it’s a bit dense for the casual reader. I write for a business audience and I’ll strip out the most important findings, and add my own
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philgyford : Sprint: Plug into Now. - Quite absorbing "dashboard" about the state of the world. Some of it's obviously whizzy and not entirely factual. But I want one for me. (via Russell Davies)
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Linkorama : 1 in 12.5 Million is Still a Killer Business Model for Spammers - According to a new study, only 1 in 12.5 million pieces of spam draws a response, but that alone is enough for a spam network called Storm to generate more than $2 million in annual revenue.
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Linkorama : Where the oil comes from: - Not from where I thought
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