Science Addiction

A dormant blog by Devanshu Mehta

Tag: Statistics

June 28, 2007

Linux for President!

Marketing blogger Douglas Karr has an “interesting study up on his web site”:http://www.douglaskarr.com/2007/06/23/2008-elections-by-server/ about the operating systems that power the web sites of United States presidential candidates.

Let’s just say, Linux lies to the left of the political spectrum. Democrats are 90% open source, Republicans 30% and Obama is on FreeBSD. I have no idea if any of this means anything, but according to 73% of Internet history experts, cool, obtusely meaningless statistics are what the Internet was designed to propagate.

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May 20, 2006

300 Million in October 2006

The US population will hit 300 million in October of this year. The census bureau has a “population clock”:http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html and so does “Gerber”:http://www.gerber300.com/. Gerber, in fact, also says: Read the rest of this entry »

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May 3, 2006

What People Were Reading Here in April

These were the most popular articles here in the month of April:

This month my old Linux on the Xbox article and Dharmesh Thakker’s light/shadows photographs are new on the list.

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April 5, 2006

What People Were Reading Here in March

Two of those articles are in a post-slashdotting haze.

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March 3, 2006

Fetch Your Netflix Ratings

If you use the “Netflix”:http://www.netflix rating system even half as much as I do, your account has information documenting your entire movie watching life. At this point in time, I have rated 1348 films on Netflix and that number grows by about 15 per month- considering I am a movie geek and a statistics geek, that information is important- nay, vital– to me! If only there was a simple, friendly way to get at my information… Read the rest of this entry »

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