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This article approaches probability axiomatically. The scientists first estimated how many of the fragments of satellite would burn up on reentry based on their size. Then, for the components they expect survived the reentry, they determined the probability that they would hit any populated area and cause damage. They reasoned that since most of the planet's surface is water, there is a greater probability for the satellite debris to land in the ocean rather than on land.

from 82games.com, a great site for finding advanced basketball metrics

Click on the link to the online database just below the title of the site and the spinning baseball

Statistics are used to generate some random numbers in computer science. In other situations, complex functions are used, however for some computer science applications, a statistical model is developed to compute random numbers. There are many sites describing this, but wiki is the best!

Unfortunately, not good dataviz on this site, but some of the linked documents do have some charts and scatterplots

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/

anyqs This is a very interesting infographic because I use both diig and reddit and most of the information follows a pattern I have noticed. But I feel it could be better if it also shows the number of users that use both sites.

I believe it's empirical because of the calculations done