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The Economy is Better In Your Mind
It’s a way of thinking and speaking that we often use when we talk about crime- “my neighborhood is ok, but over there (somewhere else), things are pretty bad.” In fact, research shows that people’s...
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Data Visualization: Work Injuries in the US
A breakdown of fatalities on the job in the United States according to their causes over the past 2 decades. While explosions and falls might be the most remembered from media reports about worker...
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Data Visualization: The Global Twitter Heartbeat
In the ongoing battle between signal and noise, there are few datasets that provide more opportunities for statistical analysis than Twitter. Truly a global network of immediate news and feedback,...
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Data Visualization: Cause of Death Trends 1970 – 2006
As a country, the United States is an outlier in many ways, but with its 300 million citizens, provides a good sample selection of the world population. This interactive data visualization, created by...
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Data Visualization: Sunlight, Fatness, and Happiness
Fat and happy. Wealthy and wise. The cliches are many, and centuries old, but the fact remains, people are interested in the potential correlation between wealth and the amount of daily sunshine, and...
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Data Visualization: Detecting International Election Fraud Using Statistics
Even if you cheat, the geeks will always win. This simple but elegant statistical approach proves to be a remarkable method of detecting centrally sanctioned election fraud. Two glaring examples in...
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Drinking Coffee Helps Prevent Truck Accidents
Caffeïne does make drivers more alert on the road, study shows. It can be hard job for truck drivers to stay alert while working, so, as you can imagine, they like to consume coffee and energy drinks....
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The Rise of Unmarried Mothers in America
Latest survey shows number of unmarried women having children keeps increasing. According to a study published this month by the US Census Bureau, the number of women having children outside of...
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Don’t Be Impressed By Other People’s Skills Or Knowledge
You would definitely want to be the red line. It is one of professor John Kennedy Ousterhout’s ‘thoughts for the weekend’ that he gave his Standford students every Friday: “A little bit of slope makes...
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Busting The Myth: Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?
Don’t be so quick to throw out your feline companions I have to admit that as an animal lover, I was biased when I approached this research. A post titled “Cats = Schizophrenia” appeared on my Facebook...
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