clock … watching time, the only true currency

Chances Are…Adventures in Probability was my other pickup at Cody’s a few weeks ago. Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan jointly authored this exploration of statistics, but the voice is consistent. Chances Are… picks through history with an eye on the odds. Skills with numbers, and misconceptions about numbers, affect far more than simply the roulette [...]

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Fascinating 22 minute video of statistician Peter Donnelly at TED explaining the impact of our general inability to interpret uncertainty. Logic doesn’t work here. I got his first example wrong, as he says most do. What about you?

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(I’m making the connection in the headline, even if no one else would.)
The blog measurement service Measure Map craaawwwwllllssss. I know… I’ve been using it for months, even before Google acquired the project from Adaptive Path.
Today, I read that FeedBurner bought BlogBeat, expressly to beef up their analytics. And I say to myself… Measure Map [...]

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(Click the thumbnail for full-size.) I don’t know what this picture says about my blog’s structure, but I’m interested in different visualization efforts all the same. Here, clock’s HTML source as a graph, courtesy of Sala. No last name given, but let’s assume the aharef in the domain is a last name until we [...]

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