Mapping a century of earthquakes

Did you know that United States Geological Survey maintains an ever growing archive of earthquakes detected around the world, and they make it easy to query and download?

Here is how you can map that data using R:

http://flowingdata.com/2014/04/15/mapping-a-century-of-earthquakes/

The Median Isn't the Message

The Median Isn't the Message is the wisest, most humane thing ever written about cancer and statistics. It is the antidote both to those who say that, "the statistics don't matter," and to those who have the unfortunate habit of pronouncing death sentences on patients who face a difficult prognosis. Anyone who researches the medical literature will confront the statistics for their disease. Anyone who reads this will be armed with reason and with hope:

http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html

Some R Resources for GLMs

It is relatively easy to figure how to code a GLM in R. Even a total newcomer to R is likely to figure out that the glm() function is part of the core R language within a minute or so of searching. Thereafter though, it gets more difficult to find other GLM related stuff that R has to offer. Here is a far from complete, but hopefully helpful, list of resources.

http://www.r-bloggers.com/some-r-resources-for-glms/

Oldies but Goldies: Some Classical Books on Statistical Graphics

The article below highlights some interesting things about three classical books on statistical graphics. The books are old but still relevant and together they give a sense of the development of exploratory graphics in general and the graphics system in R specifically as all three books were written at Bell Labs where the S-language was developed.

http://www.r-bloggers.com/oldies-but-goldies-statistical-graphics-books/

Wolfram Personal Analytics for Facebook

Recently you might have been enjoying personal #FacebookIs10 videos.. Now it is time to take a look at the stats behind your Facebook profile with Wolfram Personal Analytics..
Right from Statistics of your posts, their weekly distribution, post lengths to word cloud, top commenters and sharers..

http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/

Free books on statistical learning

Here are some books related to statistical learning, freely available online:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/free-books-on-statistical-learning/

Growth Rate of Calculus Textbooks

Do you think calculus is growing?

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~vadim/AMM%20calculus.pdf

Financial Data Accessible from R

The following post lists the sources and types of financial data that is accessible directly from R:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/financial-data-accessible-from-r/

In Praise of Simplicity not Mathematistry

"In Praise of Simplicity not Mathematistry! Ten Simple Powerful Ideas for the Statistical Scientist"

Access this featured article from Journal of the American Statistical Association

http://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2013.787932#.UfcawdJHKgQ

The Mathematics of Queues

Queues play an important role in our lives, and it seems worthwhile to spend some time understanding their dynamics, with a view to answering questions such as, “How many tellers does your bank need to provide good customer service?” or “How can you speed up the security check?” or “On average, how long will you have to wait for technical support?” Here is a gentle introduction to Queueing theory

http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/03/21/the-mathematics-of-queues/

Income inequality, real and personal

In a different take on the income inequality issue, the Economic Policy Institute, in collaboration with Periscopic, created

http://inequality.is/real

This website brings clarity to the national dialogue on wage and income inequality, using interactive tools and videos to tell the story of how we arrived at the state of inequality we find today and what can be done to reverse course and ensure workers get their fair share.

Understanding Citation Indices

Some love them, some hate them, but citation indices are heartily gobbled up by administrators in tenure and promotion decisions.  Here is Anirban DasGupta explaining the Citation Indices:

http://bulletin.imstat.org/2013/02/anirban%E2%80%99s-angle-understanding-citation-indices/

A World Without Referees

Every researcher has many stories about having papers rejected because of unfair referee reports. This happens because the refereeing process is very noisy, time consuming and arbitrary. Here is Larry Wasserman, sharing his views about the same:

www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/Peer-Review.pdf

IMS Bulletin Editor, Dimitris Politis writes about the psychoanalytic angle of the same:

http://bulletin.imstat.org/2013/02/refereeing-and-psychoanalysis/

Free e-book: Introduction to Data Science

The book by Jeffrey Stanton provides non-technical readers with a gentle introduction to essential concepts and activities of data science. For more technical readers, the book provides explanations and code for a range of interesting applications using R. Download at:

http://jsresearch.net/groups/teachdatascience/

Stochastic Challenge

An educational resource for students or anyone wanting to learn more about stochastic processes may be found at www.stochasticchallenge.org. It was developed as part of an NSF-TUES grant, and contains an online encyclopedia and calculators for common calculations. It also has videos to teach you real world problems that involve different companies. Each video will have the problem and the solution to that problem.

2012 PROSE Award Winning Book: Classic Problems of Probability

Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award for Mathematics from The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.

Classic Problems of Probability presents a lively account of the most intriguing aspects of statistics. From Cardano's 1564 Games of Chance to Jacob Bernoulli's 1713 Golden Theorem to Parrondo's 1996 Perplexing Paradox, the book clearly outlines the puzzles and problems of probability, interweaving the discussion with rich historical detail and the story of how the mathematicians involved arrived at their solutions. 

http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118063252.html

90 Days Free Access to ASA Journals

Celebrate the International Year of Statistics with Taylor & Francis and journals of the American Statistical Association! Featured articles from each new issue of the journals are set free for 90 days. Visit the ASA portal page:

http://amstat.tandfonline.com/

Free - Classic Journal Content

To celebrate the International Year of Statistics Wiley online Library has created 4 special Virtual Issues containing classic articles from across the years and across the Wiley-Blackwell statistics journals portfolio. This classic content is FREE throughout 2013:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subject/code/000113/homepage/statistics_virtual_issues_landing_page.htm

3 Month Free Trial to Statistics Journals

To celebrate the International Year of Statistics Wiley Online Library is giving the opportunity to browse all content published between January and June 2011, in over 20 Wiley Statistics Journals. You are free to take up this Trial at any point during 2013:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/subject/code/000113/homepage/celebrate_the_international_year_of_statistics.htm

Package for LaTeX tables from R output

R package to create LaTeX code for well-formatted regression tables, with multiple models side-by-side, as well as for summary statistics tables:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/stargazer-package-for-beautiful-latex-tables-from-r-statistical-models-output/