Here are some things that caught our attention last week:
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You’ve probably seen one or more of the hundreds of proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem but I was delighted to see that the Bank’s Chief Economist Kaushik Basu has added his own proof to the list which uses a nice little lemma about isosceles triangles.
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“If you can write a for-loop you can do statistical analysis” says Jake Vanderplas in his fine presentation on “Statistics for Hackers”. While there are a lot of “statistics for x kind of person” tutorials, I like this one for using fairly intuitive computation approaches.
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Santiago Ortiz and Mike Bostock are both rockstars of the data visualization world so it was exciting to see Mike’s Reddit AMA and Santiago’s AMA to co-incide with the launch of the Moebio javascript framework for data analysis and visualization
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I enjoyed two episodes of some regularly listened to podcasts last week - “Partially Derivative - The Data of Everything” hosted by Vidya Spandana, Jonathan Morgan, and Chris Albon who hosted an illuminating show on “The Data of Journalism”. And over on Jon Schwabish’s PolicyViz Podcast, NPR’s Alyson Hurt spoke about their newsroom dataviz workflow.
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On a sad note, Jake Brewer died suddenly this weekend. A model public servant, he was a huge believer in the power of civic technology to improve people’s lives, and I count myself among the thousands of people inspired by his work and thinking.
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