March 09, 2009
Being someone who both crossposts blog entries to LiveJournal and checks site stats on a regular basis*, I discovered something interesting not too long ago. My site stats tell me where people are visiting from; these are referrer links. Since a good chunk of the images I post to Grapefeed are hoste...
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Fredo
at 2:20 PM
March 08, 2009
I’ve just explored two interesting lists. The first is a list of layoffs in 2008. The second is a list of CEO compensation in 2007. The two lists are related because for many of the companies on the first list which laid off employees in 2008, the second list details the companies’ CEO c...
Wheatworks Blog: Financial Matters
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Wheatworks.com
at 10:49 PM
Manly-Warringah RLFC's successful trip to the UK in the last few weeks, which saw them beat Leeds for the World Club Challenge, was assisted by an interesting piece of technology. All the players have been wearing networked GPS data loggers during the games, so Statto gets a live feed of data on pre...
The Yorkshire Ranter
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Alex
at 8:48 AM
March 07, 2009
Actually, 20th place exactly. Among Catholic blogs, The Anchoress and What Does the Prayer Really Say are ahead. Both are excellent blogs. The (unscientific) algorithm Faith Blogging used looks at Compete.com, Alexa ranking, Technorati ranking and Google Reader subscribers. AmP has 1300+ GoogleReade...
American Papist: Not Your Average Catholic!
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Thomas Peters
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March 05, 2009
P-values come from null hypothesis testing, where you test how likely your observed data (and more extreme data) are under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true. As such, they do not allow us to decide which of a variety of hypotheses or models is true. The probability they encode refers t...
Gene Expression
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agnostic
at 3:30 AM
March 04, 2009
Mike Fast explores DIPS at The Hardball Times. He includes a graph of the distribution of fly balls and line drives to the outfield and notes they peak at the three outfield positions: Oddly enough, we see both fly balls......
Baseball Musings
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StatsGuru
at 8:00 PM
George Will has written an irresponsible article denying climate change (AKA global warming). Here’s the basic problem with George Will’s writing, as stated succinctly by The Wonk Room: In “Dark Green Doomsayers,� Will attacked Secretary of Energy Steven Chu for discussing a worst-case sce...
Dangerous Intersection
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Erich Vieth
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March 03, 2009
Market research firm Netpop has released a new study today that suggests that social media is expanding at a fast pace. According to their findings social networking has increased 93% since 2006. This comes to no surprise to most of us that have followed sites like Twitter and Facebook that have see...
he Power 150 - Top Marketing Blogs - By Todd
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Joe Hall
at 11:24 AM
The Quick Brown is a Fox News headline tracker that visually displays deltas (additions and edits) in a quick-to-grok manner. It’s actually possible to watch the sensationalizing in slow-motion, which is as sickening as it is fascinating. For example, the headline “Obama: Tax cut by Apri...
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farkinga
at 10:58 AM
Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discriminatio...
Akkam's Razor
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rzklkng
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