#statistics

18 bookmarks

https://humans.maxcomperatore.com/

A live breakdown of what most people one earth are doing right now, by reasonable guess at likely ac...

alasdairw Jun 12, 2025

https://www.microcovid.org/calculator

Reasonable? Statistical analysis of the risks of catching COVID from any give activity.

alasdairw Sep 02, 2020

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-best-questio...

Another bunch of interesting statistical slice-and-dices from OKC. I really hope they keep doing th...

alasdairw Feb 09, 2011

http://www.techbelly.com/2011/01/23/lost-bomber/

Mentally link this with the story of the woman the other week who was looking to put her disabled da...

alasdairw Jan 24, 2011

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2011/horosco...

Meta analysis for horoscopes, via Andrew. I may spend some time writing a horoscope generator at so...

alasdairw Jan 19, 2011

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-strai...

I adore OKTrends (OKCupid's stats analysis blog) out all measure. Especially when they prove bigots...

alasdairw Oct 12, 2010

http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/poker/lottery_simu...

Do you play the lottery? Here's a little tool that will simulate playing a reasonably normal lotter...

alasdairw Sep 29, 2010

http://binarybonsai.com/2010/09/27/chewie-stats/

Some data on the behaviour of users who were referred by to a site, split by the site that referred...

alasdairw Sep 28, 2010

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1501/%20millennials-ne...

I'd always thought Gen X stopped in about 1975, but apparently I'm a gen Xer. But this survey isn't...

alasdairw May 13, 2010

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/...

I would love to see a similar poll conducted over here, because I bet it would get similar results....

alasdairw Apr 09, 2010

http://timetric.com/

Met one of the founders of this outfit at the weekend. Potentially very interesting stuff in here....

alasdairw Mar 29, 2010

http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/do-m...

According to the figures published by the Times, the answer is fairly clearly yes. There's a bit of...

alasdairw Nov 16, 2009

http://www.xach.com/moviecharts/

Is you have any interest in data visualisation at all, you need to take a look at these. Really int...

alasdairw Aug 02, 2009

http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/home-taping-didn...

Whenever someone quotes me the anti-filesharing lobby's line about lost revenue, I'm going to point...

alasdairw Jun 17, 2009

http://www.withouthotair.com/download.html

I want to sit down and read this properly when I get time - an actual accessible book on the maths o...

alasdairw Apr 09, 2009