Category Archives: Statistical Breviary

Uncle Sam publishes an extraordinary quantity of data, much of which is difficult for an average person to assimilate. Today I stumbled upon MetricMash, an wonderful website for exploring a handful of important public data sets. The tools are fully … Continue reading →

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has done a great job of providing visualizations of some complex healthcare datasets released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. While checking it out, I noticed the following graph: Each blue dot … Continue reading →

The Nielson Company just published some interesting graphs showing US smartphone manufacturer operating system share. The colors are a bit loud for my tastes, but this is an excellent graphic. It cleverly combines market share by both hardware manufacturer and … Continue reading →

Boston Review published an article entitled Weak Tea by two Harvard professors, Stephen Ansolabehere and James M. Snyder, Jr, in which they assess the impact of the Tea Party movement on the 2010 elections. Regardless of whether you agree with … Continue reading →

In the beginning we had geographic maps and tables of numbers. And that suited us just fine for hundreds of years. Fast forward to today, and we’ve got gaudy preso’s with ugly 3D stacked bar charts. Where did we go … Continue reading →