Here’s a blog post about getting non-stats people interested and informed about the role that statistics play.
Jun 01
Sometimes interesting trends are hiding in plain sight as in the case of boys’ names. Here’s an article showing how over the past 100 years the last letter of boy names has been zeroing in on one letter – N. 100 years ago, there were 10 letters that stood out. 50 years ago there were 6. Now – N.
Jun 01
Back in “the old days” people often played chess with opponents who were far away by writing down their move and sending a letter by mail. Gamesbyemail.com has updated the concept for the internet age.
They’ve also developed a robot to generate the 80,000+ dice rolls needed for many of their games. Check out the article about the Dice-O-Matic.
Apr 25
Cloudera’s online Hadoop training videos now include two sessions for Apache Pig thanks to some help from Alan Gates at Yahoo.
Apr 15
GigaOM posted an article claiming that we are in the midst of a data mining renaissance. Sounds good to me.
