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The Joy of Stats available in its entirety (flowingdata.com)
55 points by Mongoose on Dec 30, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



this article via [http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2010/12/the-complete-joy...] via the original at [http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-joy-of-stats/]

"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." [http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html]


Awesome. Probabilistic descriptions of reality are highly useful for computer scientists these days.

If you are in college and you have not taken a probability or statistics course, I highly recommend you give it a shot. I use it all the time.


I remember watching his TED talk [http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...]. It was mind-blowing. I'm excited to see what else he has to show us.


This is well worth watching. He's certainly quite a guy.




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