The Washingon Post did another great story+vis, this time on states Spending seized assets. According to their sub-head: Since 2008, about 5,400 police agencies have spent $2.5 billion in proceeds from cash and property seized under federal civil forfeiture laws. Police suspected the assets were linked to crime, although in 81 percent of ...

The previous article introduced the seasonal matrices and the population growth rate λ of imaginary annual plant.  In this article, let’s try the sensitivity analysis of these matrices and the … Continue reading →

Each of us has their own mappa mundi (Gala, my indispensable friend) The harmonograph is a mechanism which, by means of several pendulums, draws trajectories that can be analyzed not only from a mathematical point of view but also from an artistic one. In its double pendulum version, one pendulum ...

Yesterday a few of us on Facebook’s Data Science Team released a blogpost showing how candidates are campaigning on Facebook in the 2014 U.S. midterm elections. It was picked up in the Washington Post, in which Reid Wilson calls us “data … Continue reading →

Recently I had the pleasure of teaching statistical and multivariate data analysis and visualization at the annual Summer Sessions in Metabolomics 2014, organized by the NIH West Coast Metabolomics Center. Similar to last year, I’ve posted all the content (lectures, labs and software) for any one to follow along with ...