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datasetof statistics on what appears to be every college basketball team from years 2003-2012

and here's one guys analysis of the 2010 statistics and some of his predictions, just about all of his predictions ended up wrong except that he predicted Vanderbilt was the most likely team to be upset in the first round....there's a lot of interesting sports stuff on the rest of the harvard sports analysis site worth checking out too http://harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/predicting-ncaa-tournament-upsets-favorite-vulnerability/

Totally subjective. Fighter gambling stats are based partially on numbers, and mostly on what will make UFC the most money. If the stats were legitimate, which they're not, then it would be axiomatic (assuming they just use the discrete values of wins to losses)

This seminal text explores in some detail the statistical nature of material failure and presents theory of stochastic analysis of such systems.  The statistical nature of fatigue failure is in fact a significant point of concern in design of mechanical structures that undergo repeated or alternating loading.

The dataset itself is available at the bottom of the page - "Download the data." This page is a competition among data analysts/mathematicians to produce the most accurate predictive model, based on historical hospital admittance data, for finding people likely to enter a hospital in the next year - Giving preventative medicine a leg up by statistically determining the at-risk patients and decreasing the cost of care. Super cool!

This is a cool argument for the new (next season) 1 game playoff between the top two wild-card teams in the NL and AL, and why it should work

Tony Heath

Analysis of all the money we should make some day, compared to those in non-STEM fields. (Links to PDF with data)