More people want to learn statistics
Jan 27, 2012 02:16 am • Permalink Data is hot right now, so as you would expect, more people are signing up and applying to learn about it. Quentin Hardy for The New York Times reports.
At North Carolina State, an advanced analytics program lasting 10 months has, since its founding in 2006, placed over 90 percent of its students annually. The average graduate's starting salary for an entry-level job is $73,000. Its current class of 40 students had 185 applicants, and next year's applications are already twice that. In 2009, Harvard awarded four undergraduate degrees in statistics. Two graduates went into finance, one to political polling and one became a substitute teacher. There were nine graduates in 2010, 13 last year. They headed into Google, biosciences and Wall Street, as well as Stanford's literature department.
And in 2011, just about everywhere.
[New York Times via @jsteeleeditor]
The Fixie Bike Index and hipsters
Jan 27, 2012 12:50 am • Permalink 
Priceonomics takes the association of fixie bikes to hipsters, and creates the Fixie Bike Index. After starting with New York, they branch out to national numbers.
In short, fixed gear bikes = hipsters, and New York boroughs that have more fixies per capita should have more hipsters per capita. We sampled our data to see the number of used bikes for sale per capita in each borough with the term "fixie" or "fixed gear" in the product title to create the Fixie Index.
I don't know about these numbers. I lived in Modesto for a year and don't remember people riding bikes — or hipsters, and riding your bike in Los Angeles kind of sucks.
[Priceonomics]
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