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Nate Silver & Conn Carroll interview

I have found that placing back test data in to heat maps and animating it over time is a great way to visualize the data.

I guess it was only a matter of time before I started to take a look at the NYSE.

I am currently reading Toby Segaran’s book “Programming Collective Intelligence” and one of the first topics it covers is how do you determine of similar two people are.

I am love watching the polls. Here are some of my favorite links.

Benford’s Law roughly stats that values of measurements in nature often have a logarithmic distribution.

So this is a little thing that I have been working on – nothing too interesting but, I like it. Essentially, if you have a dataset with time on the x axis and a projected goal this function will tell you the exact date your data projection will intersect with your goal.