Here’s something interesting, but related to this blog only insofar as an example of the use of excellent data visualization tools.
There was a set of charts presented in the Sunday NYT with a very cool charting technique to show slowdown/expansion cycles in the economy, and how they relate over time to leading indicators like industrial [...]
I went to live.com, and searched for “msn adcenter” to check something. Here’s how they’ve done with their own SEO. Check out the first organic result. Oops.
Who can tell me what’s really going on here? Maybe this isn’t a problem with the SEO work on page in question….maybe it’s an issue with live.com and how [...]
I was reading a series of great blog posts about visualization of complex networks at the cleverly named Visual Complexity blog, and I was feeling a kindred spirit. References to Darwin, Edward Tufte, ecosystems.
I clicked on their Books list, and saw many of my favorites. What caught my eye was a link, under each book, [...]
Nate Silver, of fivethirtyeight.com fame, has made his predictions for the Oscars. Or to say this more accurately, he let’s the data make the predictions.
Using logistic regression analysis, he looks at dozens of data sets over decades to build a model that look at multiple variables to predict the probability of the outcome of a [...]
