The baby name blog has a great post about how some names seem to become more female over time. It would appear from recent years that many names are becoming increasingly androgynous, and parents are afraid: what if my boy’s name becomes girlish?...
Topics: Data Science, statistics

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Youtube launched the most amazing statistics recently, hidden under their collapsed “Statistics & Data” header. Instead of a random list of awards, it now shows a timeline of the growth of the video’s popularity along with...
Topics: Social Media

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The New York Times had a piece over the weekend discussing the how computer science curricula are limited in their capacity to teach distributed computation and data mining:For the most part, university students have used rather modest computing systems..

{"title":"Teaching data science","post_url":"http:\/\/overstated.net\/2009\/10\/14\/teaching-data-science","feed_url":"http:\/\/overstated.net\/feed\/","author":"cameronfactor","date":"2009-10-14 11:04:15","summary":"The New York Times had a piece over the weekend discussing the how computer science curricula are limited in their capacity to teach distributed computation and data mining:For the most part, university students have used rather modest computing systems.."}

It’s now second nature to think that the top 1% of media account for an overwhelming percentage of overall sales. But how many people actually consume content from the more obscure parts of Netflix’s catalog? Sharad and Co. at Yahoo! Research.
Topics: Power laws, Research

{"title":"Venturing to the tail","post_url":"http:\/\/overstated.net\/2009\/09\/25\/venturing-to-the-tail","feed_url":"http:\/\/overstated.net\/feed\/","author":"cameronfactor","date":"2009-09-25 09:36:51","summary":"It’s now second nature to think that the top 1% of media account for an overwhelming percentage of overall sales. But how many people actually consume content from the more obscure parts of Netflix’s catalog? Sharad and Co. at Yahoo! Research."}

Fortunately I’m not affected at all by the added day of Bay Bridge Closure, but this quote about the repair amazes me:The parts needed to make the fix were manufactured overnight by Stinger Welding Inc. in Coolidge, Ariz. Weighing about 18,000...
Topics: Uncategorized

{"title":"Bay Bridge Logistics","post_url":"http:\/\/overstated.net\/2009\/09\/07\/bay-bridge-logistics","feed_url":"http:\/\/overstated.net\/feed\/","author":"cameronfactor","date":"2009-09-07 22:34:39","summary":"Fortunately I’m not affected at all by the added day of Bay Bridge Closure, but this quote about the repair amazes me:The parts needed to make the fix were manufactured overnight by Stinger Welding Inc. in Coolidge, Ariz. Weighing about 18,000..."}