Interesting statistics about how cell phones are used more to text than to
make phone calls. And teenagers can text blindfolded!
Education Week special issue on states' efforts to forge stronger connections between precollegiate and postsecondary education
The American Association of University Professors' annual look at faculty salaries in colleges and universities.
The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.
These include classification algorithms such as decision trees, neural nets, Bayesian classifiers, Support Vector Machines and cased-based...
my goal with this blog is to explore some of the assumptions underlying "popular" visualization design and reception, in the hopes of uncovering some practical, unifying principles that could be applied to future design. Or, at the very least, draw attention to some of the existing design issues in the hopes that awareness and discussion of them will result in more informed design.
Equationsheet.com lets you create a custom equation & constants sheet, drawing from their equation library. Categories include algebra, calculus, chemistry, geometry, physics, signal processing, statistics, and trigonometry.
In support of student research, SAS launched the SAS Fellowship Program for the United States, Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean in 2006. This program gives students the opportunity to use SAS software, the world’s leading analytic and business intelligence software, for research purposes.
This competitive program gives students a free six-month license for SAS software to use in their research. Undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students from the United States, Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean are eligible to apply to participate in the program, which will accept a limited number of students.
Interpretation of the Statistics bar in the SL client
NSF program for large-scale data collection from a cross-section of the US population
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.