Tag Archives: statistics

NYTimes.com – Corporations Getting New Tools for Calculating Emissions

I would be skep­ti­cal of any tool able to rea­son­ably esti­mate this in a mean­ing­ful way, just too many dif­fer­ences across the whole ecosys­tem of every prod­uct from the orig­i­nal ore being mined to man­u­fac­tur­ing to ship­ping to use by the end user.

October 3, 2011 – 10:14 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Computerworld – Chrome poised to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox

Can’t say I’m that shocked Google has been doing really awe­some work with Chrome.

September 29, 2011 – 10:08 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Vivek Haldar – Size is the best predictor of code quality

Essen­tially length of code tied with code met­rics becomes a rea­son­able pre­dic­tor of bugs.

September 27, 2011 – 2:10 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Atlantic – Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F

It always aston­ishes how many peo­ple who use the com­puter every day for a large part of their daily lives know almost zero shortcuts.

August 20, 2011 – 3:49 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

FiveThirtyEight – The Most Overrated Concept in Elections Analysis: Momentum

FiveThir­tyEight takes on the con­cept that because polls move in one direc­tion in the past, they con­tinue to move in that same direction.

October 20, 2010 – 6:38 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

The New Yorker – The real numbers on illegal immigration

The New Yorker does some fact check­ing of politi­cians harp­ing on ille­gal immigration.

August 1, 2010 – 7:01 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

FiveThirtyEight – Politics Done Right: Cap-and-Trade is Dead; Long Live Cap-and-Trade

Nate Sil­ver once again wins points for not just being a great sta­tis­ti­cian but an astute polit­i­cal observer.

July 28, 2010 – 12:09 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off