Why You Should Consider Studying Statistics:
- This is Statistics explains how studying statistics can lead to a life where you make a difference while making money! Win-Win!
- Statistician is rated as one of the best jobs you can have
Statistics Blogs:
- Simply Statistics is a blog by three Johns Hopkins Biostatistics professors: Jeff Leek, Roger Peng, and Rafa Irizarry
- Citizen-Statistician is a blog by Rob Gould of UCLA, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel of Duke, and Andy Zieffler of the University of Minnesota. Their tagline is “Learning to Swim in the Data Deluge”
- Harvard’s Institute for Social Science has a Social Science Statistics Blog
- Andrew Gelman has a very active and wide ranging blog
- A somewhat overwhelming aggregator of statistics blogs
- Understanding Uncertainty looks at how data and statistics are presented in the popular media
- My Classmate Mike Lopez has a great blog
- My nerdy stats humor blog Biostatistics Ryan Gosling which was featured in the wall street journal blog, and inside higher education is lying dormant but may rise again…
Statistics Education:
- Teaching Statistics with Social Justice by Lawrence Lesser in Journal of Statistics Education
- The Journal of Statistics Education has an excellent and expanding Data Archive
- Susan Holmes’ Statistics Applets
- I think this is a fantastic explanation of the Monty Hall Problem
- The ASA has several links to resources for teachers of undergraduate statistics
Random Art:
- A cool blog post on “Pure Randomness in Art”
- I am going to put A Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Informatics on my Chrismannukah wish list, or possibly request that my library orders it
- A brief explanation of Dadaism’s use of chance in art as featured in the exhibit in the National Gallery of Art
Miles Ott 