Some examples of interesting data or analysis thereof I've come across in just the past week or so:
- Who Drives Better, Men or Women? - A good example of how you need to look at data in the right context in order to arrive at the right conclusion.
- What Sports Can Teach Us About Analytics: The MIT Sloan Conference - Sports, in particular baseball, has a vast amount of great data and like me, Stephen can't get enough of it. But like he observes, the conference being about sports is somewhat incidental and the lessons learned can be applied to traditional business.
- My Basketball Computer Rankings - I have traditionally focused on football, but the past few years I've taken a closer look at who "should" make the 65 team NCAA basketball tournament. It never ceases to amaze me how accurate a computer just looking at scores can be in predicting or projecting results.
- Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs - A tremendous resource for accessing and looking at vast amounts of data.
- Strange Maps - A bunch of interesting ones. Did you know that the farthest you can get from a McDonalds in the lower 48 is 145 miles?
Stay tuned, I'll continue to share interesting data and applications of it I come across.
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I do like it. Social media and applications provide a tremendous opportunity to gather and analyze more data, this is a perfect example.
ReplyDeleteYeah, he's making use of some very powerful API's. Interesting guy to follow.
ReplyDeleteRepresenting relations in data is also getting increasingly important. Couple of years ago IBM already launched http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ but that's just a start in the whole range of "human information interaction". Xerox found out that one can read about 3-4 times faster when chunks of sentences are projected in sequence instead of moving from left to right. i must add Sun's Project Looking Glass which aimed to address this coming trend, which was an order of magnitude more cool than BumpTop. J Schwartz mentioned it in a recent blog, but despite the good looks it was from back in 2003. Hope Oracle is going to play around with this in the context of JavaFX and indexedDB (the upcoming standard for client-side browser storage). Anyways, enjoy.