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Nithin Kumar

College Attendance Decreases Chances for Marriage - 1 views

www.medicaldaily.com/...eles-college-demographic-c.htm

probability

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  • Nithin Kumar on 01 Feb 12
     
    This is an example of empirical probability since researchers followed a sample of 3200 Americans from adolescence into adulthood.
Baihaqis Bahran

15% would miss child birth for Super Bowl - Health | Outcome Magazine - 0 views

outcomemag.com/...iss-child-birth-for-super-bowl

probability

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  • Baihaqis Bahran on 31 Jan 12
     
    Empirical probability since a survey was conducted
Hayden Kelly

2012 Superbowl Odds - 0 views

www.bankrollsports.com/...2012-superbowl-odds

probability

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  • Hayden Kelly on 31 Jan 12
     
    subjective probability
lskuns

Odds of a Perfect March Madness Bracket - 0 views

www.docsports.com/...march-madness-bracket-760.html

probability

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  • lskuns on 31 Jan 12
     
    Axiomatic probability
Peter York

Super Bowl Office Pools: How to Win - WSJ.com - 0 views

online.wsj.com/...4661604577186963818406348.html

Probability

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  • Peter York on 31 Jan 12
     
    This is an example of empirical probability.
Derek Bruff

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. - 1 views

www.wired.com/...ff_placebo_effect

math216 placebo effectsize

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  • Derek Bruff on 25 Jan 12
     
    As will this. Check out the graphic down the page on how different kinds of pills have different placebo effects.
Derek Bruff

Cosmic Habituation - Radiolab - 0 views

www.radiolab.org/...cosmic-habituation

math216 effectsize

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  • Derek Bruff on 25 Jan 12
     
    This will make your brain hurt.
Dan Hasday

Digg vs Reddit [Infographic] - Rate Rush - 1 views

www.raterush.com/...digg-reddit

dataviz reddit digg

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  • Omotoyosi Taiwo on 25 Jan 12
     
    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.
colin thomas

Browser Market Shares - 4 views

www.axiis.org/...BrowserMarketShare.html

dataviz web browser browsers

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  • Anas Alfuntukh on 22 Jan 12
     
    anyqs How did they calculate the percentage? As far as I know there is no accurate way to determine exactly the percentage the market share of browser. So, I want to know their standards on their way of counting. Besides that, what does the empty space represent? Moreover, do they include all kinds of devices (laptop, phones, TVs, desktop, ...etc) or just laptops? And if so, how did they distinguish between them in their study? :)
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  • James Booge on 23 Jan 12
     
    I'd like to imagine that mobile browsing was done mainly on iPhones as at 2009, the latest date on the graph. Did that contribute to Safari's market share? If it did, were other mobile browsers counted as well? Also, how exactly is the data gathered? It mentions w3schools, the web consortium, but doesn't mention how they (w3schools) get their data or from whom, and what kinds of devices are polled.
  • Andrew Leopold on 23 Jan 12
     
    What happened to AOL? What did they do wrong???
  • anonymous on 24 Jan 12
     
    anyqs I would like to see the more information on how they collected this data and what it applies to. As James said, mobile browsers are distinguishable from others (from something called the User Agent in the browser), but I could go into my Opera browser on my Android and change the User Agent to 'desktop' and trick the website into thinking that a desktop viewed it. I would imagine that if w3 were to pull from their website, it would be heavily biased towards non-mobile browsers, as people would prefer to learn on a more comfortable screen.
Joe Cassiere

Playing Time for Each MLB Team - 2 views

www.flipflopflyin.com/...info-2011playingtime.html

Dataviz

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  • ngould27 on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs I'd love to see other stats about each team to go along with time played. Runs scored and runs against is the first thing I thought of when I saw Boston/NYY at the top and SEA at the bottom. Pitches per plate appearance could also be interesting, as could the number of extra inning games. I would also love to see number of nationally televised games because the ESPN/FOX games tend to have longer commercial breaks.
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  • Josh Jones on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs I feel like the first think someone would want to know is which of these teams win more. Is the longer length of playing time directly proportional to the records of wins and losses? I do know a enough about baseball to know the answer to that question is a no. So, I would like to see additional stats such as number of at bats, shortest time spent playing defense, just certain things that directly affect the outcome of the game.
  • Teddy Weaver on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs this seems like way to simple of a figure for what it could display. The overall total playing time for a team would, in my opinion, not be as interesting as comparing players across teams or maybe including the post season
  • xiongfei gao on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs As an exchange student, I am not familiar with MLB. Whether each team has to play the same number of games each season? From this chart, I thought it was not with grate help. Because the data are close to each other and I am not sure whether the different color have different meanings
Derek Bruff

FiveThirtyEight: Live Coverage of South Carolina Primary - NYTimes.com - 1 views

fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/...-of-the-south-carolina-primary

dataviz primary

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  • Derek Bruff on 22 Jan 12
     
    Note the lack of pie charts here...
  • Lauren Arpin on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs How was the chance of winning calculated based on the percent voting range? I feel like theres an easy formula for this, it's just not immediately obvious (to me anyway).
Seth Friedman

American Dudes and Fast Food - 7 views

blog.lab42.com/american-dudes-and-fast-food

dataviz math216 food american statistics

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  • Paul Whelan on 20 Jan 12
     
    Why are straws included in the most loved things at McDonalds? Wouldn't straws be included in Shakes? Although I guess you can eat a shake with a spoon :P Secondly, McDonalds is ubiquitous. How can they make conclusions about customer's "loyalty" when some people may not even have a chipotle, the restaurant with the lowest "loyalty", near them? anyqs
  • Daniel Dudugjian on 22 Jan 12
     
    anyqs I'm curious about the socioeconomic status of the customers and how they order off the menu. From my experience as a McDonald's employee, the lower-income bracket orders off the dollar menu, while families order value-meals and kids-meals, but that's just personal observations. I am curious to see if there is an actual relationship between the two.
  • Robert Jackson on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs Im curious as how they can even begin to compare McDonalds and Chipotle in the first place? It would have been easier for them to just compare them to eating at a non fast food restaurant than a specific one. SOme of the people sampled might not even enjoy chipotle. Also, I dont understand why the hot sauce portion is even included in the data. It doesn't seem to correlate with the rest of the data.
Andrew Leopold

Musicovery - 10 views

musicovery.com/index.php

dataviz math216

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  • Graham Gaylor on 19 Jan 12
     
    "anyqs" Where are they getting the data for the music? Most listened to on radio? Pandora? Youtube searches? Also, what does the size of each square represent?
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  • Ted Lawrence on 23 Jan 12
     
    This is a really cool visualization. I spent some time playing with the different layers and you can really see the different trends in music throughout history. Most are what you would expect, i.e. predominance of jazz and classical music pre-1950, rock and roll taking over after about 1950. I'm curious about how the genres were designated. Sorting music into genres isn't always so neat since there can be overlap. For example, James Brown is listed under funk but he is also "the godfather of soul". It would be interesting to know some demographic information such as the age groups that tend to like certain music. anyqs
  • Robert Price on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs Is there any definition to the points above and below the "x-axis"? Were these the Top 10 chart hits for these various years, or where did these songs come from? In my opinion, there is a strong lacking of representation for popular country in recent years, as country music has gained popularity in the past decade and a half, or so. Finally, where are the definitions for these genres coming from? For example, I'm not entirely sure I'd classify Rihanna as an R&B musician.
  • cmfcrown2146 on 23 Jan 12
     
    *By having the size of the dot represent the amount of times it was favorited and its location on the y-axis represent its popularity aren't you factoring in how well liked the song is multiple times? How do you differentiate between pop and vocal pop, or any two genres for that instance? Can a song be counted in multiple genres? anyqs
Joseph Newman

Reducing Your Chances of Dying in a Plane Crash - 4 views

www.informationisbeautiful.net/...nces-of-dying-in-a-plane-crash

dataviz

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  • Nathan Hall on 18 Jan 12
     
    The question that really jumps out at me is in the section with the greyscale plane diagrams - Do the planes with the most fatalities also have more cumulative flights? The ratio of planes in service to accidents gives some scaling data, but it's entirely possible that the seemingly dangerous Boeing 737 family has made many more cumulative flights than its counterparts. "anyqs?"
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  • Baihaqis Bahran on 22 Jan 12
     
    anyqs For the safety record (fatal accidents by airline), does the bigger the font size represent the higher frequency of fatal accidents? Or is it represent the higher number of fatality? Its kinda define ambiguous because in an fatal accident, the fatality also depends on the size of aircraft and number of passengers. A 120 passengers aircraft with 10 fatal accidents is better than a 230 passengers aircraft with 6 fatal accidents.
  • Abdul Rasyid Kamaruzaman on 22 Jan 12
     
    anyqs For the bad month, I am so confuse with the circle. It only says January, May and August that had the most fatal accidents. Does that means that every other month no accident occur and what make these months so special? Is it because it is school holiday and people decided to go somewhere? I mean every other month have school holidays too or does this refer to America only because in Malaysia we have school holidays in June and Dec.
  • JC Ren on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs I don't understand why there're numbers for only 3 months in the "bad month" section. For the bad flight, how are they bad? Does it mean those flights have the most crashes?
  • mehdi hailouch on 23 Jan 12
     
    In the display of the number of crashes by month, does the thickness of the circle represent anything in the data because some circles are thicker than others, or are the numbers being compared just based on the diameter of the circles?
  • Haolin Wang on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs In the second display, I'm confused with in ratio of the number of the planes in service to fatal accidents. The ratio is interpreted as an indicator of the safety factor of the plane. However, in my opinion, the larger plane is taking a higher risk of suffering more casualties rather than comparing their in service ratios.
zhiyuan wang

- StumbleUpon - 3 views

www.stumbleupon.com/...worldclock.swf

dataviz

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  • Robert Price on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs When was the originating date for the number of total persons born data? Is it from the "beginning of time"? Also, how are abortions measured? Are these just registered, legal abortions, or an approximation of self-inflicted abortions?
Teddy Weaver

Job Growth at 100 Best Companies - 4 views

nicolasrapp.com/...best_companies_gfx.gif

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  • Teddy Weaver on 22 Jan 12
     
    Compares the voted top 100 companies via jobs applications, current number of employees, and amount of jobs created/lost. Overall it is a fairly simple graphic but is interesting to see how these companies compare
  • Anurag Bose on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs This is a beautiful relative comparison graph. However, it would still be better to see all the companies losing a percentage of their workforce instead of just the number. This would show a better representation of decline or prosperity of a company. for example, is microsoft facing the recession more than anyone else, or did they simply have too many employees before
  • Joe Cassiere on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs This is a nice graph, especially in that it compares multiple variables. One question I have though is who voted on these best companies? What was their definition of best? Also, this is pretty technical, but is the center of the circle or the top of the circle even with the total number of employees?
Ted Lawrence

Urban Omnibus ยป Let's Talk About Maps 2 - 4 views

urbanomnibus.net/...lets-talk-about-maps-2

dataviz maps

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  • colin thomas on 22 Jan 12
     
    I think these maps are much nicer than the color maps that I found in my high school history classes. The 3D aspect of them is much nicer than the heat maps I have become accustomed to. They really allow you to see the how many more people live in some regions than in others. anyqs
  • Connor Baizan on 23 Jan 12
     
    The graph of the population distribution of the US is a very interesting statistical representation. There is one outlying area that I noticed. In southern Florida there seems to be a very sparsely populated area and this map brings up the question of why this would be the case. Most of the coast surrounding this area is densely populated, so is there a geographic barrier there that prevents dense human settlement? anyqs
Teddy Weaver

Vehicles involved in fatal crashes - 1 views

flowingdata.com/...cles-involved-in-fatal-crashes

dataviz

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  • Teddy Weaver on 18 Jan 12
     
    :)
  • zachary sanicola on 18 Jan 12
     
    I wonder how many were alcohol related since the days with the most wrecks were Fri, Sat, and Sun?
  • Dan Hasday on 23 Jan 12
     
    It would be interesting to compare the number of cars on the road to the number of fatal crashes, or even the total number of crashes to fatal crashes.
ngould27

The Republican primary in one graph - 4 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gIQAQE6N5P_blog.html

dataviz math216

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  • Seth Friedman on 23 Jan 12
     
    "anyqs" I'm very interested in how exactly the poll defines a "Republican-leaning independent". Was it self-reported? Were the subjects asked about their views on certain issues, and, if so, how was a "Republican" viewpoint determined? In addition, I'm curious as to what the sample size is for this data, as well as what a rough population number would be. For registered Republicans, I feel like this would be easy to calculate, but it would be rather difficult to determine the population size for "Republican-leaning independents" depending on what method was used.
zachary sanicola

History of the USA in a circle - 7 views

flowingdata.com/...-the-united-states-in-a-circle

dataviz

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  • chrisbutsch on 22 Jan 12
     
    anyqs Simple question really. What size did the designer of this chart intend it to be? It would have to be pasted onto the moon for anybody to be able to read the font. #thinkofyouraudience
  • Jon Getz on 23 Jan 12
     
    anyqs Do the bubbles in the middle that account for the average national debt of the economy take anything else into account? For example, the percentage of GDP that the national debt is would be a better statistic, in my opinion.
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