http://datamineshaft.com/blog Telling Stories About People Through Data. Updated Each Thursday. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:07:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I started my new job today and I'm so drained that I'm in no condition to blog. Hopefully I can get something out next week. See you then! http://datamineshaft.com/blog/overworked (This is the second of two parts of a series on the "Teens, Video Games, and Civics" put out by the non-partisan Pew Internet & American Life Project. Part one was about the general findings of the report. Part two, in true data nerd form, will be about ... http://datamineshaft.com/blog/teens-love-guitar-hero-part-two My editor is at Halloween Horror Nights tonight. So even though tonight's post is ready to go, I'd really rather have him look at it before I post it. I should be able to post this on Saturday (the first chance he'll have to look at it). ... http://datamineshaft.com/blog/brief-delay Things have been super crazy for me lately. First of all, I accepted a new job. Second, I went to the Rays game last night (I'm a Tampa Bay native) and stayed out way past my bedtime. Third, I had to go to the dentist today and ... http://datamineshaft.com/blog/time-off-2 Between picking up my new car, the Tampa Bay Rays playing to be in the World Series, and being incredibly busy, I regret that I did not have time to write tonight's post. I should definitely be back with part two of my Gaming survey post next week. Go Rays! ... http://datamineshaft.com/blog/rays-of-light (Over the next few weeks I'm going to be rolling out what I call "Version 2.0" of this blog. Basically, I'm going to start incorporating all the things I've learned lately about blog writing and visual thinking. The content won't change much, but the presentation should be quite ... http://datamineshaft.com/blog/teens-love-guitar-hero-part-one Well, this week things have been pretty crazy. My editor is sick. On top of that, when I tried to do some hardcore predictive modeling on my turn signal dataset, I found out there wasn't much of an overall predictive pattern in the data, no matter what model I ... http://datamineshaft.com/blog/time-off (This is the second post in a two-part series on earplugs, sound, decibels, and noise reduction ratings, the last one being the number used to “grade” earplugs. In part one, I laid the groundwork and discussed a couple of simpler problems with noise reduction ratings. In part two, I’ll discuss ... http://datamineshaft.com/blog/plug-n-chug-part-two (This is the first post in a two-part series on earplugs, sound, decibels, and the noise reduction rating, which is the number used to "grade" earplugs. In part one, I'll lay the groundwork and discuss a couple of simpler problems with the noise reduction rating. In part two, ... http://datamineshaft.com/blog/plug-n-chug-part-one Well, folks, tonight's post on earplugs suddenly required a lot more research than I'd planned. I have most of the information ready to go, but if I start writing it now, I might keep my "Ed-itor" up all night. So I will most likely finish up this post ... http://datamineshaft.com/blog/posting-postponed