OpenIntro Statistics: an online intro stat book with labs

I came across this nice online portal on introductory statistics: OpenIntro Stats. It has a textbook, labs on R or SAS, teachers resources (slides, learning objectives), videos, and much more. Everything is laid out in a nice accessible platform, including LaTex source files. It is a nice resource for learning intro stat, R/R studio and LaTex.

Visualizing An American Day in real time.

Tom Ireland wrote

The average American's alarm clock goes off at about 7am to get to work just in time for a 9 to 5 job, only to drive back home, have dinner at 6pm and watch a bit of TV before bed at 10:30pm. But how typical is this routine, really?

After reading your blog, I thought you might be interested to know that at peak times, over 1/3 of Americans are watching TV. You can find this and more fascinating information on our visualization, Busy States of America. With new data as yet unpublished from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, you can see how many Americans are doing common, everyday activities right now. View the real-time visualization here: http://www.retale.com/info/busy-states-of-america/ 

I hope you find our display of the typical American's day interesting and share it with your readers. Let me know if you have any questions.

 I think the visualization is pretty nice.

Google NGram

So, Google is scanning all the books ever published and is making good progress. An interesting project span off from all text scanned is the Google books NGram viewer project that curated all the words/phrases' traces in the publishing history. The raw data is also available for anyone interested in playing with a big set of interesting data. Here is my take on "Statistical learning" vs. "Statistical modeling" vs "predictive analytics".