Social Explorer is an online data mapping application. The free tier only includes access to the Census 2000, according to their pricing chart. But, it looks like an interesting tool for analyzing data, and I wanted to bookmark for future reference.
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Effective Data Visualization: Transform Information into Art
"In this course, [Data illustrator Sonja Kuijpers] gives you the tools you need to transform data into captivating illustrations using colors, shapes, and images. Discover how to collect and analyze data sets, as well as how to transform them into a unique poster that tells a story. Are you ready to create your own data … Continue reading Effective Data Visualization: Transform Information into Art
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research
"The purpose of this article on COVID-19 is to aggregate existing research, bring together the relevant data and allow readers to make sense of the published data and early research on the coronavirus outbreak."https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus When you get tired of listening to people that don't know what they are talking about blather on about epidemics, cures … Continue reading Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research
Miller
"Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON." Available in Debian derivatives via: $ sudo apt-get install miller Also has a nice 10 minute introduction.
Problems of Post Hoc Analysis
"Misuse of statistical testing often involves post hoc analyses of data already collected, making it seem as though statistically significant results provide evidence against the null hypothesis, when in fact they may have a high probability of being false positives…. A study from the late-1980s gives a striking example of how such post hoc analysis … Continue reading Problems of Post Hoc Analysis
Forecasting in R: Probability Bins for Time-Series Data
This time-series.R script, below, takes a set of historical time series data and does a walk using the forecast period to generate probabilistic outcomes from the data set. Input file is a csv file with two columns (Date, Value) with dates in reverse chronological order and in ISO-8601 format. Like so: 2019-08-06,1.73 2019-08-05,1.75 2019-08-02,1.86 Output … Continue reading Forecasting in R: Probability Bins for Time-Series Data
Gardener’s Vision
"Without communication, connection, and empathy, it becomes easy for actors to take on the “gardener’s vision”: to treat those they are acting upon as less human or not human at all and to see the process of interacting with them as one of grooming, of control, of organization. This organization, far from being a laudable … Continue reading Gardener’s Vision
Which US States Best Protect Privacy Online? – Comparitech
"Laws governing online privacy in the US vary widely from state to state. To find out how each US state ranks from least to most private, we evaluated each and every one of them based on 20 key criteria." —Paul Bischoff. "Which U.S. States Best Protect Online Privacy." comparitech.com. July 20, 2018.
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