Numbers
71 posts are filed under “Numbers.”
2012
2011
2010
2009
- “The Bloomberg of Wind” (Wind Pole Ventures)
- Popularity of Words for Numbers
- Our Greatest Animal Menace?
- The Arbitrary Precision of a Close Finish
- Woe is GDP
- The Good Old Days, Inflation-Adjusted
- Proactive Safety from Flight Data
- Penetration Confusion
- Ondák’s “Measuring the Universe”
- Data-Mining 1.6 Million Putts for Irrationality
- Meaningful Numbers on Commuter-Airline Safety
- Managing by Measuring the Right Things
- Geeks Bearing Formulas
- Making User Ratings Add Up
- What Can You Learn from 40 Million Resumes?
- How Big is a Trillion?
- The Risky Business of “Value at Risk”
2008
- Understanding 0.02 Parts per Billion
- Review: “Super Crunchers” by Ian Ayres
- Art Auctions’ Self-Serving Numbers
- SVD for You and Me
- Different Ways to Do Percentage Differences
- The Evolution of Children’s TV
- Points, Percentages, and Stock-Market Plunges
- Megapixels Begone (Comparative Metrics That Won’t Go Away)
- The Metrics of High Gas Prices
- Bill James Explains
- Correcting for the Human Factor in Movie Ratings
2007
- Vampires versus Math
- Analytics That Explain Themselves
- Yield Management for Metered Street Parking
- The New York Times, Nielsen, and a Missing Margin of Error
- Is Predicting Hit Songs Futile?
- Do You Like What You Like Because You Like What I Like?
- The Joshua Bell Experiment
- How Big Was That Squid?
- CMU’s TrafficSTATS
2006
- Stock-Price Milestones
- Election Night 2006 Graphics
- One Person, One Vote, Many Voting Systems
- The Netflix Prize: Research Project as Product
- CarMax Does Data Better
- Wine Ratings: Drunk on Numbers?
- Vanity Sizing
- Why You Will Probably Outlive the Average Life Expectancy
- By the Numbers: Komar and Melamid’s “People’s Choice”
- Data Visualization as Art
- Unexpected Numbers from the Economist’s “2006 Pocket World in Figures”
- GM Gets Shifty With Numbers
- Where the U.S. Poverty-Rate Metric Came From
- How Not To Use Numbers: High Schools Withhold Student Rankings
- BusinessWeek Does the Math