Statistics in the World

Statistics in the World

• Five Thirty Eight blog by Nate Silver
• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science blog by Andrew Gelman
• Numbers Rule Your World blog by Kaiser Fung
• Significance Magazine by ASA and RSS

A Few Data Sets

• Daily Weather (NOAA)
• American FactFinder (Census data)
• Data.gov
• World Bank Data
• UN Data
• A list of more data sets for class projects

Computational Statistics in R

• Introduction to R on CRAN
• TryR Introduction to R
• R Bloggers
• Revolutions

Data Visualization

• Flowing Data by Nathan Yau
• Chartsnthings by New York Times Graphics Department
• Gap Minder by Hans Rosling
• Edward Tufte Forum
• Many Eyes by IBM
• Data-Driven Documents (D3) Javascript library for dynamic visualizations

Tables vs. Graphs

• Turning tables into graphs
• Why tables are better than graphs (April Fool’s Day Joke)