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Elections and small sample sizes
XKCD hits the nail on the head yet again with a great commentary on election year “no one has ever _____ and won the White House” musings. These drive me nuts because obviously we have an incredibly...
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Cool kids and linguistic pragmatism
Yesterday a facebook friend of mine put up an angry post regarding misuse of the word “decimate”. His chief complaint was that people used it as a synonym for destroy, when really it meant a reduction...
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Rock, Paper, Crayon
Recently in a conversation with a friend of mine, I mentioned a paper I had read that asserted that we are more attracted to potential partners who look like us1. I couldn’t remember all of the...
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Buzzfeed or Research Study?
The Telegraph has a report on a new study that attempts to divide people in to 4 different types of drinkers, based on how alcohol affects them. The four types are: Hemingway The Nutty Professor Mary...
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Guns and Graphs
One of my favorite stats-esque topics is graphs. Specifically how we misrepresent with graphs, or how we can present data better. This weeks gun control debate provided a lot of good examples of how...
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Popular Opinion
A few years ago, there was a brief moment in the NFL where all anyone could talk about was Tim Tebow. Tebow was a controversial figure who I didn’t have much of an opinion on, but he sparked a comment...
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Bitterness and Psychopathy
I’m having some insomnia problems at the moment, so it was about 4am today when I turned on my coffee maker and sat down to do some internet perusing. I was just taking my first sip, when I stumbled...
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Guns and Graphs Part 2
In the comment section on my last post about guns and graphs there was some interesting discussion about some of the data. SJ had some good data to toss in, and DH made a suggestion that a graph of...
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Blog Updates
As many of you know, I used to run a blog called Bad Data Bad! and this morning I figured out how to import all of those old blog posts in to this blog. I’ll be going back and tinkering a bit…tagging...
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Millenials and Parenting
Recently Time Magazine ran an article called “Help! My Parents are Millennials!” that caught my interest. Since I am both a parent and (possibly) a millennial, I figured I’d take a look to see what...
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Coming this February….
As I’ve mentioned in a few comments/conversations around here, one of the main goals of my current blogging kick has been to come up with some more defined project for myself and/or ongoing series....
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SCOTUS Nomination Timing
After yesterday’s news about the death of Antonin Scalia’s death, the conversation almost immediately turned to whether or not President Obama should or would nominate a new candidate. There’s...
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Terrorist Timelines and Bar Graphs
A reader going by the name of “Sound Information” sent along the following graph from this Brietbart article, with this comment: Just saw the following graph in a Breitbart article, and thought “wow!...
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What I’m Reading: March 2016
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit. Alas, we are outnumbered. It won’t help with the asymmetry thing much, but I love this site. I plan on using it early and often. Oh wait, here’s some more on...
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What I’m Reading: April 2016
With opening day at Fenway in less than a week, I figured it’s a good time for me to crack open this book: Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics. If anyone...
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Digital Nightmares and Things We Don’t Know
It took me a few years of working with data before I realized what my primary job was. You see, back when I was a young and naive little numbers girl, I thought my primary job was to use numbers to...
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What I’m Reading: May 2016
My brother sent me this article about a guy who is using data anomalies to track down Medicare fraud. Interesting use of patterns, data, and humans to go where the government can’t. Things are getting...
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Lost in Translation: Survey Edition
I ran across an interesting article from Quartz today that serves as an interesting warning for those attempting to compare cross-cultural survey results. People from multiple countries were asked the...
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What I’m Reading: June 2016
This month, my book was Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions . It’s more on the technical side (some stories include the code used to analyze the data), but it’s pretty good if...
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The Fallibility of Journalistic Memory, a Play in Three Acts
If you’re looking for a little fun reading on this long holiday weekend, I would like to point you to a series of posts Ann Althouse has put up over the past couple of days. It’s not stats related, but...
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