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Scientists Looking To Fix The Many Problems With Forensic Evidence
Everything everyone saw in cop shows as evidence linking people to crimes -- the hair left on someone's clothing, the tire tracks leading out to the road, the shell casings at the scene, etc. -- is all proving to be about as factual as the shows...
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Florence Nightingale Saved Lives by Creating Revolutionary Visualizations of Statistics in 1855
A data nerd who changed the world for the better.
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These three factors explain why US men have a shorter life expectancy
A big part of why men in various countries have very different life expectancies can actually be attributed to causes of death that affect people under 50.
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OECD health statistics 2015. Compare your country.
Life expectancy, health risks, health expenditure
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Q: How do I estimate the probability that God exists?
Mathematician: Before jumping into this question, it is important to realize that probabilities are not objective, observer independent quantities. We can think of the claim that a particular outcome will happen with a probability of 0.30 as meaning (loosely speaking) that given the information available to me right now, if I could replay this scenario many times, then in about 30% of those occurrences I would expect that particular outcome would occur.
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Shut up about the y-axis. It shouldn’t always start at zero.
What commenters get wrong about charts.
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Was the Turkish election rigged?
The AKP received 4.5 million extra votes compared to June's election, and people are suspicious. By Emre Deliveli.
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How Drug Companies Game the Placebo Effect
Randomized controlled trials are supposed to be the gold standard of drug testing—but companies can easily tweak the system in their favor. By Andrew Gelman and Kaiser Fung.
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More Americans Do This Job Than Any Other
Many Americans celebrate Labor Day by getting together for a cookout, taking a final road trip before the kids go back to school, or going to the beach. According to data from the U.S. Census, more Americans — 4,562,160 — work in retail sales than in any other occupation.
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Mediterranean migrant deaths in 2015 pass 2,000
More than 2,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe this year, data showed Tuesday, bearing testimony to migrants' increasingly desperate attempts to reach the continent. "Unfortunately, we have now reached a milestone whereby over 2,000 migrants and refugees have died as of this past weekend," International Organization for Migration spokesman Itayi Virri told reporters in Geneva.
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Brewing Multivariate Beer
I was toying around with the idea of multivariate beer, where the ingredients varied by county demographics. Could I taste the difference? Here's how the experiment went.
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The Data or the Hunch?
More and more decisions, from the music business to the sports field, are being delegated to data. But where does that leave our intuition? Ian Leslie figures it out
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How R can supercharge data science
With industry support in 3 key areas, we could accelerate the progress of R and enable a real revolution in the connected world.
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New Powerball Odds Could Give America Its First Billion-Dollar Jackpot
New York state lottery commissioners approved a proposed rule Monday that would change the Powerball lottery jackpot odds. Assuming the rest of the Powerball stakeholders get on board (and they hav…
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What's your favorite data set?
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Correlation does not imply causation
15 examples of why correlation doesn't imply causation. It is a logical fallacy to equate correlation with causation, to assume that because A and B occur together, A causes B.
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Florence Nightingale: Saving lives with statistics
Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady with a lamp. Discover how she fought to improve civilian and army healthcare throughout her life.
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Shiny 0.12: Interactive Plots with ggplot2
Shiny 0.12 has been released to CRAN! Compared to version 0.11.1, the major changes are: Interactive plots with base graphics and ggplot2 Switch from RJSONIO to jsonlite For a full list of changes ...
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RPubs - GGplot2: layers
Hadley Wickham, author of the popular ggplot2 R package writes about buidling gglplots by layers.
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ggplot2 - Easy way to mix multiple graphs on the same page - R software and data visualization - Documentation - STHDA
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