2 month ago
Andy Baio : OK Cupid crunches the numbers on the biggest lies in online dating - for example, hotter photos were much more likely to be outdated according to EXIF tags [via]
nelson : Online dating lies - Another amazing data analysis post from OkCupid
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nelson : xkcd color survey - Funny and useful all at once
Andy Baio : xkcd's Color Survey Results - most popular colors unique to women, "dusty teal" and "blush pink"; for men, "penis" and "gay"
Simon Willison : Color Survey Results - Color Survey Results. XKCD asked anonymous netizens to provide names for random colours. The results (collated from 222,500 user sessions that named over 5 million colours) are fascinating.
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joshua : Data Marketplace : Find, buy and sell data online
WillPate : Data Marketplace - A new marketplace for structured data, looks like it will significantly lower costs
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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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joshua : Steam Hardware Survey
nelson : Steam hardware survey - Snapshot of what Windows gamers have for computers
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Andy Baio : New York Magazine's long profile of FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver - if you haven't, spend a little time reading about his methodology to understand how he's totally changed the game
gleuschk : How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections -- New York Magazine - 538.com is burning a hole in my screen
Rod Begbie : How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections - Great profile in New York Magazine of Nate Silver and the sterling work he's been doing at fivethirtyeight.com. Got to love anyone who can make a living from a combination of baseball, politics and obsessive number-crunching. [via] #
Greg Storey : Tom, forget Ann Coulter you need to follow this guy. - FiveThirtyEight is about as unbiased as it gets.
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23 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org - Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org: very cool work by Andy and Joshua
deusx : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org - "While most political blogs are extremely partisan, their biases aren't immediately obvious to outsiders like me. I wanted to see, at a glance, how conservative or liberal the blogs were without clicking through to every article. With the help
nelson : Political link colouring - Interesting hack: categorize blogs by conservative / liberal, then colour links accordingly
joshua : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - I did the heavy lifting on the math side
wearehugh : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org
Greg Storey : Visualizing political bias with Greasemonkey. - Waxy is the Bill Nye of the Internet.
Andy Baio : Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Like the rest of the world, I've been completely obsessed with the presidential election and nonstop news coverage. My drug of choice? Gabe Rivera's Memeorandum, the political sister site of Techmeme, which constantly surfaces the most controversial stori
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25 month ago
Khoi Vinh : Mycrocosm from M.I.T. Media Lab - “A Web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs.”
Andy Baio : Mycrocosm - very, very similar to Daytum, but supports OpenID and a mobile/email interface
philgyford : Mycrocosm - "A web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs." Like Daytum? Love it. (via Haddock)
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25 month ago
43folders : DAYTUM - via:http://numblr.nostrich.net/post/46889016
Andy Baio : Daytum, collecting the minutiae of your daily life - private beta service from Nicholas Felton, author of the Feltron Annual Reports [via]
philgyford : Daytum - Lets you keep track of any kind of daily data you like and graph it. Brilliant. I don't often think "I wish I'd thought of that" but... (via Kottke)
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27 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete: "Learning to use a "computer" of this scale may be challenging. But the opportunity is great..."
Linkorama : The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - Sounds like yet another kind of model to me
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28 month ago
Andy Baio : FiveThirtyEight, weighted electoral projections - from a guy who specializes in baseball stats; looks like a good dashboard [via]
Greg Storey : Electoral projections done right. - There are several principal ways that the [our] methodology differs from other poll compilations.
Linkorama : FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right
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28 month ago
Andy Baio : The Whitburn Project: One-Hit Wonders and Pop Longevity - How has the record industry changed in the last 50 years? Using the Whitburn Project spreadsheet I talked about yesterday, I've been trying to dig into some of the underlying trends. Today, I'll be tackling the longevity and diversity of pop songs, and
wearehugh : The Whitburn Project: One-Hit Wonders and Pop Longevity - Waxy.org - nine kinds of awesome
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30 month ago
Andy Baio : Mail Trends, IMAP-based email analysis and visualization - works great with Gmail; for a sample dataset, Mihai used the Enron email archive [via]
joshua : mail-trends - analyze and visualize your email as extracted from an IMAP server
Rod Begbie : mail-trends - Analyzes your email corpus and displays nice graphs. Currently only works with GMail, but support for all IMAP servers is planned. [via] #
philgyford : Mail-trends - Google Code - "Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server)" Haven't tried it, but it looks purty. (via Haddock)
Jeremy Zawodny : mail-trends - mail-trends: "Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server)."
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : jwz - Happy Groundhog Day! - Detailed analysis of how long Bill Murray was trapped in February 2nd in "Groundhog Day" [via] #
adamrg : jwz - Happy Groundhog Day!
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32 month ago
Andy Baio : Dopplr Raumzeitgeist 2007 - nice visualization of everywhere Dopplr users visited last year [via]
Linkorama : Dopplr Raumzeitgeist 2007 - Where we went last year
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32 month ago
Andy Baio : Books That Make You Dumb - Virgil correlates favorite books to SAT scores per college to find smart/dumb books; don't miss the FAQ [via]
Rod Begbie : Booksthatmakeyoudumb - Comparing SAT scores with colleges' most popular books according to Facebook. Guess where the Bible ends up on that scale... [via] #
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32 month ago
adamrg : DCortesi . blog » Twitter Stats - I ran my stats earlier. Will post them shortly.
factoryjoe : DCortesi . blog » Twitter Stats - A sweet Perl script to generate stats on your use of Twitter. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, stats
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33 month ago
adamrg : Charts | Worth a thousand words - Excellent graphic representations of complex historical data. Sort of puts excel charts to shame.
gleuschk : Charts | Worth a thousand words | Economist.com - I didn't know about 2 out of 3 of these
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34 month ago
jcgregorio : It's not exponential, it's sigmoidal - Like I've been saying, the future of every social networking site is Studio 54.
nelson : Sigmoidal - Great down to earth reaction to "exponential growth"
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34 month ago
nelson : Halo 3 heatmaps - I love how Bungie is handling stats tracking
joshua : halo 3 heatmaps - where people congregate
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philgyford : World Clock - Statistics (based on estimates) updating in real time about deaths, diseases, disasters, etc globally.
fastclemmy : worldclock.swf - worldclock.swf by fastclemmy & 5 other(s) The world, in realtime hotlinks clock world stats Copy | React (0)
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39 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : Mistakes in Experimental Design and Interpretation - (via science.reddit) [via]
joshua : Mistakes in Experimental Design and Interpretation
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40 month ago
Andy Baio : TweetVolume - see also: Twitter is all about love and belong [via]
Linkorama : TweetVolume - charting the use of words in twitter
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40 month ago
Andy Baio : Kottke on the growth of Twitter vs. Blogger - digging into Twitter's incredible growth using low-tech means; the comments are good, too
nelson : Twitter, Blogger growth - more delving into IDs to give a clue to message traffic
Linkorama : Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger - Interesting comparison, hints at low thresholds, multiple modalities, experience of team as cause
jimray : Kottke's got a sharp post about the growth of Twitter v. Blogger - With charts for the kids! Uses the sequential numbering of post-ids to compare message growth of the two services.
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