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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.

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!

This page has deep Statistics about electric engineering jobs in U.S from different aspects.

Wage estimates for over 800 occupations.

The "Video Game Statistics" infographic from OnlineSchools.org shows details about video games, including duration, gender, console of choice, and more. It compiled data from the ESA, various console manufacturers, and online surveys into a fun chart.

For decades, the World Database of Happiness has tracked how happy people are.

anyqs Immediately when I see statistics on human emotions, I find myself asking, rather skeptically, how do they know how happy someone is? If I say that I am the highest level of happiness today, i.e. a 4, and then tomorrow I win the lottery, then I'm still stuck saying I'm a 4. I wonder what the statistics would have looked like if they gave their populations a greater range to choose from than 1 to 4? Perhaps 1 to 100? Would the people have rated themselves happier or less happy? Does forcing the sampling population into discrete values with a resolution of only four values affect how they respond? Further, the graph mentions that some countries weren't even surveyed some years... Perhaps they weren't surveyed during the worst years when everyone would have been very unhappy? \ The creators also gave "suggestions" as to why the counties got happier or sadder. For example, they believe that France became sadder as a whole country because we renamed Freedom Fries back to French Fries.. Really??? Is this website meant to give statistics or just to be funny? Consider the title, its even a joke. anyqs

Statistics are used to compare sorting algorithms in computer science. The most commonly used way to do this is by analyzing their "Big O" value.

A collection of Java apps that demonstrate various ideas in probability and statistics

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

Specifically, I looked at "Exchange Rates - Daily - 2010 to Current"

The researcher interviewed here is familiar to me--he's done some interesting things with cryptography to secure information about victims of human rights abuses. Here, he talks about the statistical challenges in estimating death tolls. Very interesting stuff.

I know the interviewee here from my cryptography class. He uses advanced encryption to keep secure information on witnesses of human rights abuses. In this interview, he talks about the challenge of estimating how many people are killed in various conflicts. He keeps the stats pretty light in this interview, but I think you can still get an idea of how statistics might help with these kinds of estimations.

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!

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/

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

Statistically shows who should be considered the greatest basketball players of all time based on different accomplishments.

"anyqs" This is a very cool way to see how players from the past rack up to one another. One of my questions is how did they come up with a a methodology to rank the award achievement points, and do they believe this method can be used to rank all players versus one another? It seems like using this method, guys who have played with multiple championship teams who are not considered stars could then rank really highly, even though they might not have played a huge role in the championships won (NBA championships are the most achievement points). If all the NBA players were put on this chart, then some people could be mislead, as a guy like Charles Barkley could rank lower than say Derek Fisher, even though Fisher would is not considered on the same star level as Barkley.

anyqs How was the scoring of the achievement decided? For example, why is the pointage for Playoff Appearances 0? And it seems like there's a significant penalty for people who've never won a championship, despite their skill level. Is it fair to discount a player's all time greatness, if they were never on a team good enough to win a championship? Like John Stockton, one of the greatest point guards of all time. Leads the league in career assists by over 4000 (with 15,000+), but is given a very low ranking for his skill and effect on the game, because of his lack of rings. There's an odd skew, and while championship rings are a massive deal, they're not everything.

This would probably be an axiomatic notion of probability, as it places the approval of past presidents with the current president. If it were taken from the perspective of whether or not President Obama will be elected for a second term, though, it could be seen as subjective probability statistics. 

Interprets the variance in a batter's average on a year to year basis and tries to determine how much of an effect a hitter's and pitcher's relative skills have on balls in play.  Uses empirical probability methods with batting averages.

I think this is empirical and a little subjective because he chose what statistics to use.

kentucky's (my state's) manufacturing statistics.