Saturday, October 23, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?
Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Education As We Know It Is Finished - Forbes.com
Education As We Know It Is Finished - Forbes.com:
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn, 07.12.10, 05:10 PM EDT
Classrooms are giving way to online learning--forever."
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn, 07.12.10, 05:10 PM EDT
Classrooms are giving way to online learning--forever."
According to the authors, economics may be joining the list of forces leading major changes in education. That can be really powerful.
"Many schools have framed the looming cuts as a threat to how they operate--even though the teaching force has grown by 10% since 2000, while student enrollment increased by only 5%. But others are seeing the hardship of the moment as an opportunity to transform what they do with the implementation of online learning. Pressured by not only widespread cuts but also increasing demands for accountability, these innovative leaders recognize that online learning is a key reform for doing more with less."
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Special Report: U.S. data dogs on quest for sexier statistics | Reuters
Some excerpts from the article:
A handful of data-loving economists in key positions at Treasury, the Commerce Department and the White House are pushing for alternative measures to provide a clearer picture of how well the economy is working.
Two new sets of statistics are due to be launched next year. The Labor Department is working on an enhanced time use study to track what Americans do all day and how they feel about those activities, a project that draws on Krueger's academic research. (www.bls.gov/tus/)
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment
Readability™ is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading. It is a "bookmarklet" i.e. a toolbar button that you can add to your browser. You can click on it while reading any web page and it will get rid of all the clutter on the page, making it easy for you to read the content. I also use it for printing, saving me a bunch of pages and ink that gets spent in all that extra clutter.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Bayesia's World Cup Simulator
News from Bayesia about their World Cup Simulator:
The new release of Bayesia World Cup Simulator (http://worldcup.bayesialab.com ) is now available. It allows assessing the win/loss probabilities of the Stage 2 matches (just by clicking on the match), all the way to the final. The team with the highest probability simply goes to the next stage.
We then use all the assessments of the matches for computing a consensual table issued from all the players' votes.
Feel free to play with that online application, and do not hesitate to send me your comments
By Lionel Jouffe, President/CEO at BAYESIA
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Google's gadget for creating motion charts
This gadget lets you create visualizations similar to the ones presented in the Hans Rosling video.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen
Classic video from Hans Rosling showing the power of data visualization and telling the story behind the data.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Trimtab: The Monthly E-Newsletter of The Buckminster Fuller Institute
B. Fuller Institute's monthly newsletter:
Odds Are, It's Wrong - Science News
Good paper that summarizes the controversy over the use and misuse of statistics in various important aspects of our lives. In my opinion, the paper is a bit too one-sided, so I am also including the rebuttal from the American Statistical Association.
Of course, the biggest issue with all these really important papers is that they are not presented in a language that everyone affected by them (which is "everyone") can understand.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
Following the same theme as the earlier post ("Unreasonable effectiveness"). This paper is very recent and equally interesting.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
A rather old, but still thought provoking paper on:
Sunday, June 20, 2010
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