Super Freakonomics is published and it is as good as the earlier book. This post summarizes one of the stories in the book that show that perhaps our behaviors around money are instinctual.
From the category archives:
Statistics
A visualization of European Football (Soccer) is reviewed.
A website presents statistical data collected from the data.gov catalog. Home page includes information related to: unemployment, toxins, cancer, and transient nature of poplulation.
Book of Odds is a website that provides a visual browser for navigating a database of statistical statements.
A link to a great article over at Flowing Data listing several sources where you can find source data.
Why does the other line seem to move faster? A simple to understand post about statistical sampling bias.
The context of a statistic is explained through three medical examples from Edward Kavanaugh’s presentation titled, Statistics Without Context.
People have a lot of trouble visualizing big numbers, particularly, the relationship between one big number and another big number.
