Data Privacy for Kids
The L.A. Times ran an interesting article about the new Federal Trade Commission(downloads) report, “Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures Still Not Making the Grade”, followed up on a February 2012...
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My Year of Reading in Review
Two years ago, I made a New Year’s Resolution to read more books. At that point I joined GoodReads to hold myself accountable. I read 47 books that year (at least that I recorded). In 2012, I didn’t...
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A walk in Venice Beach
For various reasons, I decided to walk this weekend from my house to Venice Beach, a distance of about four and a half miles. The weather was beautiful, and I thought a walk would help clear my mind....
View ArticleYour Flowing Data Defended
I had the privilege last week of listening to the dissertation defense of UCLA Stat’s newest PhD: Nathan Yau. Congratulations, Nathan! Nathan runs the very popular and fantastic blog Flowing Data, and...
View Articleparticipatory sensing
The Mobilize project, which I recently joined, centers a high school data-science curriculum around participatory sensing data. What is participatory sensing, you ask? I’ve recently been trying to...
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Personal Data Apps
Fitbit, you know I love you and you’ll always have a special place in my pocket. But now I have to make room for the Moves app to play a special role in my capture-the-moment-with-data existence....
View ArticleNotes and thoughts from JSM 2014: Student projects utilizing...
Another August, another JSM… This time we’re in Boston, in yet another huge and cold conference center. Even on the first (half) day the conference schedule was packed, and I found myself running...
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Data News: Fitbit + iHealth, and Open Justice data
The LA Times reported today, along with several other sources, that the California Department of Justice has initiated a new “open justice” data initiative. On their portal, the “Justice Dashboard“,...
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More on FitBit data
First the good news: And now the bad: It costs you $50/ year for your data to truly belong to you. For a ‘premium’ membership, you can visit your data as often as you choose. If only Andy had...
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Accessing your 11.0 iTunes library
One of the themes of this blog is to make statistics relevant and exciting to students by helping them understand the data that’s right under their noses. Or inside their ears. The iTunes library is...
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