Rich voters, poor voters, and the 2008 election
Andrew Gelman, guest-blogging at fivethirtyeight.com, uses survey data from before the 2008 US presidential election to ask the question: which…
When is a zero not a zero?
Answer: when it's in floating point.No, this isn't my entry for the "least funny joke ever" competition. It's the answer…
Reminder: DSC 2009 abstract submissions due March 15
Peter Dalgaard reminds us that abstracts for DSC 2009 are due by March 15.
Copulas and Wall Street
Wired Magazine has an article this week on the credit crisis: Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street.…
Detecting latent variables… in rock music
Here's a neat example of data analysis and visualization (sadly, not using R) with an interesting application: detecting rock songs…
R, the FDA, and clinical trials
There's been an interesting discussion recently on the R Project group on LinkedIn (sub. req.) on the topic of using…
The recession is fostering interest in BI software, which helps…
The recession is fostering interest in BI software, which helps companies analyze the data they collect for new cost-cutting or…
Our technology collects content from thousands of high-quality…
Our technology collects content from thousands of high-quality online sources, deeply analyzes and parses it, and creates a trove of…
Semantic Web technology is already changing how we interact with…
Semantic Web technology is already changing how we interact with data on the Web. By connecting random information on the…
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