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Statistics

Data or Design?

“Every time we went down the ‘wrong’ path, we learned something concrete — if not about software than at least about people”

Charting Change over Time

Grant has been doing some great stuff over at Xero, with an account balance view that enables fluid browsing of the time range by adjusting the width of the scroller control. This is a good technique …

Sampling Twitter

From a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users, it would seem that men follow men, and nobody tweets. As you might suspect, this is a textbook example of ‘participation inequality’.

Bubble Spike?

People are starting to wise up to the distortions of bubble math surrounding the recent rush of interest in socially oriented websites steaming ahead under the banner of Web 2.0, but it is interesting…

Pandora's Alertbox

Write Articles, Not Blog Postings could be one of the most arrogant and ineffably crude pieces of writing that Jacob Nielsen has ever published. He starts with reasonable and valid advice: thorough,…