John Johnson did an analysis of the statistics blogosphere for the Coursera Social Networking Analysis class. His blog post about the analysis lists...
0 replies - 2411 views - 11/18/12 by John Cook in Articles
In this great article on the IT project fiasco in Mitt Romney's campaign, there's a quote that is representative of much of what you see around...
1 replies - 4270 views - 11/17/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles
In the wake of the U.S. election, a ton of different outcome visualizations have made the rounds online. The traditional winner-take-all electoral map gets the...
0 replies - 4721 views - 11/16/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles
Suppose you’ve written a program that randomly assigns test subjects to one of two treatments, A or B, with equal probability. The researcher using your...
0 replies - 2748 views - 11/15/12 by John Cook in Articles
The last decade of Javascript performance improvements in the browser provide exciting possibilities for distributed computing....
0 replies - 3558 views - 11/14/12 by Gary Sieling in Articles
This post is based on a talk by Bhaven Avalani and Yuri Finklestein at QConSF 2012 (slides). Bhaven and Yuri work on the Platform Services team at...
1 replies - 7132 views - 11/14/12 by Matt O'Keefe in Articles
So, Movember finally arrived (seehttp://ca.movember.com/). So far, not a lot of articles about moustaches. But I should find some by the end of the month!...
0 replies - 1955 views - 11/14/12 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
Faunus is an Apache 2 licensed distributed graph analytics engine that is optimized for batch processing graphs represented...
0 replies - 2680 views - 11/13/12 by Marko Rodriguez in Articles
The last year or so I’ve been leading a small team of developers. We’ve been working on a project that involves genomics and molecular biology,...
0 replies - 2669 views - 11/13/12 by Ola Bini in Articles
In my previous post, I discussed our BigData Trifecta, which includes Storm, Kafka and Cassandra. Kafka played the role of our work/data queue. ...
0 replies - 4925 views - 11/12/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles
ProblemYou want to display a scatter chart in ExtJS 3.4.SolutionUse the Ext.chart.Chart class, and make the lines invisible.DiscussionThis example works by...
0 replies - 2025 views - 11/12/12 by Gary Sieling in Articles
In his book Permission Marketing, Seth Godin referred to email marketing as “the most personal advertising medium in history”. That was...
0 replies - 2646 views - 11/10/12 by Ravi Kalakota in Articles
This post will take a slight detour from implementing the patterns found in Data-Intensive Processing with MapReduce to discuss something equally...
0 replies - 3335 views - 11/09/12 by Bill Bejeck in Articles
Tim Hopper asked on Twitter today:#rstats programming without @hadleywickham’s libraries is like ________ without _________.Some of the replies...
0 replies - 3024 views - 11/08/12 by John Cook in Articles
In many cases, in statistical modeling, we would like to test whether the underlying distribution from an i.i.d. sample lies in a given (parametric) family,...
0 replies - 2136 views - 11/07/12 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
