statistics

Big Data Is Less About Size, And More About Freedom

Mar 17, 2010

Marketing, Professional

big data, data mining, statistics, techcrunch

My favorite quote in this interview: Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, recently said, “The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians… The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it” Unfortunately for those of us working on…
QuickStats – Amazing online tool to grab US Education Statistics

Mar 13, 2010

Marketing

charts, college students, ed.gov, education, government data, research, statistics

Was doing some research and found this amazing online resource for finding statistical and demographic info on college students in the US. You can dynamically build charts and tables using a Pivottable-like web interface. Very cool stuff indeed. Hope to see this functionality in other web sites. Check it out at QuickStats .