Stats with Cats
I have a cat named Ellis. (Disclosure: that is not really a picture of my cat. My camera isn’t working. Taken from Big Black Cat.org) Ellis is usually not very helpful with my statistics questions, but...
View ArticleFlocking behavior, swarm models, and art
Seems like swarm algorithms and flocking behavior are pretty popular these days. Visualizations of those algorithms are pretty sparse, though. Today I ran across the work of some architecture...
View ArticleUsing statistics to lie, and why democracy needs statistical literacy
I have often argued that we should encourage more statistical literacy in school and society in general. This is not just because I am a statistics nerd. Statistics is a language just like English;...
View ArticleA “New Data Epistemology”
Does visualizing data change the way you think about that data? I believe it does. But so does what data we are collecting in the first place. This will be a lengthy post. But stick with it. In...
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