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This has to be the most quick-and-dirty data visualizer out there: I wrote an ascii art plotter script that takes a column of numbers on stdin and throws out a plot on your console. I’ve been using it for several … Continue reading →

With Powerset’s launch, there’s an awful lot of hot air and crappy blog posts about natural language search being written. Instead of contributing to that mess, I prefer to direct the reader to the best writing on the topic that … Continue reading →

Wow, this is pretty cool: From an Andrew Gelman article on summaring a linear regression as a simple difference between upper and lower categories. I get the impression there are lots of weird misunderstood corners of linear models… (e.g. that … Continue reading →

This is a great post. I think I’ve seen it from several sources already… Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms

Wow — teletype machines and cybernetics to run an economy! Before ’73 Coup, Chile Tried to Find the Right Software for Socialism – New York Times (note they mean this version of the word “cybernetics”) And here’s a better Guardian … Continue reading →

For R users or wannabes… I really love R, but it has horrid documentation and a steep learning curve. Recently I was introduced to Quick-R, a really excellent documentation site. I think it’s made the system dramatically more useful for … Continue reading →

Yes, Money Can Buy Happiness . . . – TierneyLab – Science – New York Times Blog

PHD Comics: Humanities vs. Social Sciences

This is a lot of data: Inductio Ex Machina – A Meta-index of Data Sets

From a graphics/mod programming workshop, modifications of “Breakout” in awesome video form: It uses Processing, a framework designed for animation and graphicky things. It was also used for the Similar Diversity visualization that maps out named entities and their common … Continue reading →