Bring on the box plots: Nature advocates these over bar #plots, solicits & then publishes an R #tool to create them
http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2014/01/bring-on-the-box-plots-boxplotr.html
Best Season to Get #Pregnant: not May. Unfortunately, winter babies will suffer more #healthproblems!
http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/07/best-season-get-pregnant
QT:{{”
We’ve known for a long
time that summer babies are healthier than winter babies but not the why. …
Right. And these are babies that are born in the summer versus those that are born in the
winter. There’s been this correlation that’s been around for a long time. Scientists have
seen that children that are born in the winter tend to have more health problems later in
life. They tend to be slower growers, have higher incidences of mental illness, and even
early death.
“}}
Around 12 July interesting discussion of correlation between the months of ones birth and later
health problems. Winter born children are more susceptible to health problems. The theory
proposed is that this has to due with flu and the shortening and premature birth.
Who Wants to Be a Russian #Billionaire? Has great #stats:
~100K people worth >$50M. Half live in US.
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/10/09/who-wants-to-be-a-russian-billionaire via @changeist
QT:”
Russia: 35% of the country’s entire wealth now in the hands of just 110 people….
…
Credit Suisse estimates that worldwide there are 98,700 “ultra-high net worth individuals,” or people worth $50 million or more. Almost half of them live in the United States.
”
Who Wants to Be a Russian Billionaire?
http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/10/09/who-wants-to-be-a-russian-billionaire
What College Rankings Really Tell Us : The New Yorker
THE ORDER OF THINGS
BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_gladwell
This is a very interesting article that illustrates the importance of considering the weighting various of features. It gives some very concrete examples of how one can get very different rankings by picking weights. All of this is in a sense obvious but it is nice to see spelled out with regard to school rankings.
QM QBism v Copenhagen. Is Bayesian Belief better explaining
Schrodinger’s Cat than superimposed dead & alive states?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wave-function
Top pct cutoff is $380k income in ’08 (avg $1.2m) with ~$7m net worth in ’09. Half of the income from wages and a quarter from interest. http://www.economist.com/node/21543178