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America's Most-Dangerous-Cities

(finance.yahoo.com) - In March 2008, Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with eight felonies, including perjury and obstruction of justice. In August, he violated his bail agreement and was thrown in jail. His actions were deplorable for anybody, but Kilpatrick was no Average Joe--he was the mayor of Detroit.

Comments: 0 Score: 8 Submitted April 04, 2009 by celee

Tagged in: statistics, crime

XKCD - Fermirotica

(xkcd.com) - Hey! No statistical voyeurism!

Comments: 0 Score: 10 Submitted April 04, 2009 by jsuggs

Tagged in: voyeur, xkcd, humor, statistics

YouTube - Did You Know

(youtube.com) - Did you know? If you are one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you...

Comments: 0 Score: 0 Submitted March 03, 2009 by granite777

Tagged in: statistics, youtube

NBA Team Heat Maps - Who really are the clutch teams

(obsessionism.com) - What makes a player clutch? Are there clutch coaches? Are there clutch teams? When someone says that there isn’t a mathematical equation for clutch, is there an inferential chart that may help identify it? Or does it just give fodder for people to read what they want into the data?

Comments: 0 Score: 12 Submitted January 01, 2009 by jsuggs

Death map USA: Natural disaster hotspots revealed

(newscientist.com) - Southerners are more like to die from the effects of the weather than people living in any other region of the US. But for all the attention garnered by catastrophic hurricanes such as Katrina and Andrew, simple heatwaves kill far more people than all natural disasters combined, according to a newly published county-by-county map of natural hazard deaths.

Comments: 0 Score: 12 Submitted December 12, 2008 by jsuggs

Tagged in: statistics, science