My father just forwarded me an email from his company warning about an increase in spam email for the holiday season. The chart they included is pretty crazy. It looks like about a 70% increase in spam in the month of October. So if 98% of all email gets blocked by spam filters, and let’s [...]
The Guardian posted a bunch of data about IED explosions in Afghanistan from the WikiLeaks data that just came out. Drew Conway took a look at it and it looked pretty similar to the plots that I made the other day. So here’s what I wanted to see: what percentage of the deaths/injuries reported were [...]
Well, this is my first post on my new blog and it seems like I’ll be getting off on an interesting foot. Wired ran an article today about how today’s Playboy Playmates are getting thinner and thinner, while the average BMI for all women (and men, I’m sure) is increasing. Fortunately, they provided the data, [...]