Thanks to Revolution Computing blog post on Open Source Predictive Analytics I learned of a special report in The Economist on the data revolution occurring beneath us (it came out just last week, so I don’t feel that left out). So I couldn’t wait so I printed out all 9 sections and started reading; i’ll [...]
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Sports Crunchers
9 March 2010
For the sports fans out there, the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference took place over the weekend and there has been a lot of buzz about it already. Truehoop at ESPN.com has a good rundown of the events.
In the photo at the top of Truehoop blog post you will see some familiar faces including [...]
Cost of Poor Air Quality
3 March 2010
I heard an interesting report on the local NPR station (KPCC) as I was driving home from work today regarding a study recently published by RAND on the cost of poor air quality in California. According to the study, it was determined that $193 million dollars could be saved if California actually met the federally [...]
The Flow of George
21 February 2010
A post at FlowingData got me looking at some research from Northwestern University which uses the flow of money to determine human mobility networks. The project page called wheresgeorge is the portal through which users can help track dollar bills. A very nice video produced by the research group does a wonderful job explaining the [...]
lies, damn lies and statistics
18 February 2010
