Statistics and the Australian Open

I watched parts of the Federer-Tsonga match in the Australian Open a couple of days ago. Federer won the first set of the match. At that point the announcers started a discussion of the players with the highest winning percentage for a match given that the player had won the first set of the match. […]

Record Lows on the Mississippi River

Recent news accounts (here, here, and here) have focused on the low water levels along the Mississippi River, the removal of bedrock from the river bottom, and the impact on barge traffic along the river south of St. Louis. A post over at rud.is asked “How Low Can It [The Mississippi River] Go?” The graphic […]

West Nile Virus – How Bad is it?

The Washington Post ran a story on September 12th titles “Does the West Nile outbreak signal an epidemic of viral epidemics? Yes and no.” Somewhere in the process of writing there was a disconnect between the written content and the graphic that accompanies the piece. The graphic is mostly meaningless and uses questionable data. The […]

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