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- The R is my friend blog publishes a series of four articles on neural networks. This is probably one of the most comprehensive introductions to neural networks in R. If you are in love with neural nets and want to learn even more, here is another tutorial by Saptarsi Goswami.
- State-by-state media preferences as revealed by bit.ly.
- Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Sciences at Columbia University, discusses why Bing is preferred to Google by people who aren’t like him.
- Have you heard of Simpson’s Paradox? Here is an interactive visual (using the 1973 Berkeley sex discrimination lawsuit as an example) that explains the paradox in 60 seconds.
- Dan Delany does a visual breakdown of furloughed employees due to the U.S. government shutdown. The main view shows furloughed proportions by department, and there are real time tickers for duration, estimated unpaid salary, and estimated food vouchers unpaid.
- If there is an 82% chance an an event will occur within your life time (and assuming that you live for 70 years), what is the probability that this event will occur on any given day?
- Tableau, the popular interactive data visualization tool, is coming out with a new 8.1 update, and it will include integration with the R language. Learn how to integrate the two in just 30 seconds.
- A short (but not trivial) lesson on data smoothing using R.