Congratulations to the Cheeseheads on their Super Bowl victory. As a fan of that pro-sports desolate wasteland known as Cleveland, and despite a conflicting desire to demonstrate league superiority of the AFC North, I found myself pulling for the team in green (plus I love cheese). Nice to see a
Apart from truly novel and innovative breakthroughs, a basic recipe for scientific research is: Combine two or more established methods that have evolved independently, leveraging particular strengths of each. Give the new combination a clever name. Publish the heck out of it. In this blog post, I’d like to highlight
We be of one blood, thou and I. So says Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. From Cain and Abel to Twilight’s Edward and Jacob, the human race's very existence has been vitally dependent on that fascinating fluid that flows thicker than water. The
I bet you know the words to Three Blind Mice and Hickory Dickory Doc and have seen at least some of Mighty Mouse, Tom & Jerry, Speedy Gonzales, An American Tail, Stuart Little, The Great Mouse Detective, Flushed Away, Ratatouille, and Desperaux. You’ve hugged Mickey and Minnie at Disney World.
We are privileged to live in an age of advanced science and technology. Software is one of the most amazing parts of it, providing complex programs to control mind-boggingly incredible inventions that help us with such things as unraveling the deep mysteries of genomics. As widesweeping as software has become,
This weekend features one of my all-time favorite sporting events: the golf US Open (plus Father’s Day on Sunday provides a convenient guilt-free excuse to actually watch it). This year, the tournament is held at the Bethpage Black course just outside of New York City. It has a classic sign:
For about a year now, I’ve been having trouble with my faithful Craftsman Eager-1 push mower, which I bought at Sears about 15 years ago. The daggum thing starts up fine but then cuts off after about 2 seconds. This has led me to adopt the following algorithm: 1. Press
Thanks for the enlightening comments to my blog post "I Like 3-D Pie Charts" and for the new graphs. While the bar charts from Joe and John are very nice, I prefer vertical bars because of their connection with the gravity orientation of trees, mountains, buildings and of course cell-phone
So you know I’m a faithful left-brained statistician who makes every attempt to adhere to the highest professional standards of data visualization and analysis. Graphics luminaries like Edward Tufte and Stephen Few have made very valuable contributions to the field, and I bow to their wisdom. But I have a
My youngest daughter was recently watching a rerun of Home Improvement featuring Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor and his mock TV show Tool Time. She said “Dad, you and Tim both seem to get into a lot of trouble when playing with power tools.” My wife added that throwing a