Posts tagged “statistics”

The web industry hoards data like a magpie, but almost nobody knows how to make it mean anything. If you want job security for the next decade, learn statistics. We're paddling in the shallows while the ocean gets deeper every day.

I used a handy web service to visualize my Twitter habits: I tweet most on Wednesdays, peak at 9am on my morning commute, and my monthly volume eerily mirrors my quality of life, dropping off when a big deadline crunch hit in July.

Slate's piece on the economics of suicide is full of wild stats: 3% of Americans have attempted suicide, there are 1700+ attempts daily, and failed attempts correlate with a 20% income boost. Genuinely bizarre stuff worth reading.