Dr. JeffMasters of Weather Underground was astonished at the weather extremes of 2010. There was so many weather events that he put off writing about it for six months. Every year extraordinary weather events rock the E...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/25/2010-saw-record-extreme-weather/The exhibit “Of All The People in All The Wo... ...millions and billions of humans and their varying statistics . By representing each person as a single piece of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/08/of-all-of-the-people-in-all-the-world-in-rice/Statistically speaking, anyways. Every year, Gallup polled randomly selected American adults about their lives, including how happy they are: The New York Times asked Gallup to come u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/06/the-happiest-man-in-america/Whether you prefer apples or oranges, this tongue-in-cheek infographic is one worth reading. I especially like this "pie chart" which is, of course, a bar chart. And you might see a little bias in the author's stats....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/06/apples-to-oranges-the-final-comparison/A Canadian geological statistician came to the realization that the numbers on some scratch lottery cards could not be random. “It wasn’t that hard,” Srivastava says. “I do the same kind of math all day long....
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/03/a-statistician-solves-a-scratch-lottery-code/I've found myself watching a lot of Law &... ...rs of the day on various TV channels. Now we have statistics that track the outcomes of the cases in each seas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/03/the-law-and-order-database-seasons-1-10/Google has a new tool in which you can search... ...s that Google has digitized for a keyword and get statistics from as far back as the 16th century. The Google...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/17/google-book-data-shows-the-resurgence-of-the-geek/The New York Times has a series of interactive maps of the US with which you can study population distribution by race and ethnicity, income, housing (such as mortgage, home value, and rent), and by education. I foun...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/15/interactive-data-map/During World War II, the Allies tried to estimate the number of tanks produced by Nazi Germany. But these estimates often contradicted each other. So they asked statisticians to come up with a solution. The statistici...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/18/how-the-allies-used-math-to-figure-out-nazi-germanys-tank-production/Surprise, surprise! The average American worker slacks off about 1.7 hours per work day. Almost half of them spent this time unproductively on the Internet (sorry, guys! I know Neatorama's not helping your productivity!)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/14/the-stats-on-slacking/
