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Let me show you how French Coffee makes your brain happier (and other statistical lies)

August 15, 2011

Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating “the optimum TEDTalk” based on user ratings. How do you rate it? “Jaw-dropping”? “Unconvincing”? Or just plain “Funny”? [download tedPad here] Share it with your [...]

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Flickr now offers Photo Stats

December 13, 2007

Flickr is now offering statistics about the photos you keep on their website: However, you have to tell them you want stats for your photos. So go to any of your images, click the “Photo stats” links (shown on the image above) and let Flickr know you want stats. They should begin to appear in a [...]

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