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

Google's gadget for creating motion charts

This gadget lets you create visualizations similar to the ones presented in the Hans Rosling video.

Visualization: Motion Chart - Google Chart Tools / Interactive Charts (aka Visualization API) - Google Code

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.

Trimtab: The Monthly E-Newsletter of The Buckminster Fuller Institute

B. Fuller Institute's monthly newsletter:

Trimtab: The Monthly E-Newsletter of The Buckminster Fuller Institute

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.

Odds Are, It's Wrong - Science News

http://www.amstat.org/news/pdfs/OddsAreItsWrong.pdf

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 Data

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

A rather old, but still thought provoking paper on:

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

Hello world!

This is the first post in this blog.