DSA Insights

In a post last week, I presented a flight patterns video from Aaron Koblin.  Hadley Wickam was kind enough to point me to the original flight pattern video, which is really impressive given that it was created 14 years ago.  Click on the image below, or here, to see the original flight pattern video.

There are a bunch of great videos spanning the last 30 years or so in the library section of the American Statistical Association website.  Here is a link to the video section. 

If you are interested in statistical computing and a little history, including PRIM-9, check out this page/video.  The video features: John Tukey and Jerome Freedman.

A special thank you goes to Hadley for his contribution on this post.  Hadley is an Assistant Professor at Rice University with a PhD in statistics from Iowa State University.  To learn more about Hadley and his contributions to statistics and data visualization, click here.

Related:

http://supportanalytics.com/blog/2008/08/visualizing-human-systems/

Exploratory Data Analysis (Addison-Wesley Series in Behavioral Science) by John Tukey at Amazon.com

Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics (Addison-Wesley Series in Behavioral Science) by John Tukey at Amazon.com

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Recently, CNET featured a video on Aaron Koblin whose name I had never heard before a few viral videos hit.  Aaron is an artist/designer/researcher focused on creating and visualizing human systems.  Many of Aaron’s visualizations are just stunning as you can see in the image above.  One of his most well-known works is the flight pattern simulation shown in the video below.  I have also included some other popular videos regarding Aaron.  Enjoy!

Flight Pattern Video

Sheep Video

Ten Thousand Cents

Radio Head - House of Cards

Check out the video on CNET by clicking on the image below.

To see Aaron’s portfolio, click here.

In the world of technology and software, since when does a release happen ahead of schedule?  Not often.  Well, WordPress has version 2.6 available for download about a month ahead of schedule.  The upgrade was pretty painless except for one minor issue.  For some reason, the maintenance mode plug-in needed to be deleted to run the upgrade from my browser.

This video describes the new features for WordPress 2.6.  One of the best new features is the image caption feature to help with citing sources or describing the image.

As with the last upgrade back in May, please let me know (using this form) if you find any bugs with this blog.  Who knows, there may just be a prize involved!

Related:

• To download WordPress 2.6 click here
• To get detailed upgrade instructions click here
• WordPress For Dummies, Lisa Sabin-Wilson at Amazon.com

This video is a little long, but Hans does an excellent job presenting statistical data.  It’s worth the time to watch, trust me.