xkcd delivers another great data visualization, this time of the ocean depths

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

Images of the island nation of Kiribati, which is planning to move its entire population to nearby Fiji due to rising ocean levels

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.

Great use of an infographic to convey research findings

Here's a (new to me) blog all about data visualization.

I wonder if the Poisson distribution (the one we used to model the arrival of trucks at a loading dock) would work for modeling "100-year" hurricanes.

As will this. Check out the graphic down the page on how different kinds of pills have different placebo effects.

This will make your brain hurt.

Note the lack of pie charts here...