Education Week's 4th annual Diplomas Count report: Broader Horizons: The Challenge of College Readiness for All Students.
CDF's State of America's Children 2008 report is a compilation of recent national and state-by-state data on poverty, health, child welfare, youth at risk, early childhood development, education, nutrition and housing.
This article shares some statistics on cyberbullying.
From the site: "Via web application software, data citation standards, and statistical methods, the Dataverse Network project increases scholarly recognition and distributed control for authors, journals, archives, teachers, and others who produce or organize data; facilitates data access and analysis for researchers and students; and ensures long-term preservation..."
This report presents 2006-07 school year information at the national and state level on student enrollment by grade and by race/ethnicity within grade, the numbers of teachers and other education staff, and several student/staff ratios.
Interesting statistics about how cell phones are used more to text than to
make phone calls. And teenagers can text blindfolded!
Education Week special issue on states' efforts to forge stronger connections between precollegiate and postsecondary education
The American Association of University Professors' annual look at faculty salaries in colleges and universities.
The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.
These include classification algorithms such as decision trees, neural nets, Bayesian classifiers, Support Vector Machines and cased-based...
my goal with this blog is to explore some of the assumptions underlying "popular" visualization design and reception, in the hopes of uncovering some practical, unifying principles that could be applied to future design. Or, at the very least, draw attention to some of the existing design issues in the hopes that awareness and discussion of them will result in more informed design.