But on February 1st, he started a new job as CEO of Revolution Analytics, the company supporting, spreading, and enhancing R, the open-source statistics and predictive analytics programming language.
Serious investors, of course, do not rely on press accounts but go straight to the source of the statistics.
But he said the watchdog's calculations were based on what he considered "the most authoritative source" of national statistics on the subject from the Treasury.
It is surely no coincidence that according to McAfee's statistics the second-largest source of SQL injections in the first quarter was none other than America.
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Mr. Poehm tries to quantify the damage, but his argument uses a stream of vague and at times nonsensical statistics without referencing a single source (See The Solution to PowerPoint for a good example).
Vault.com is another good source, and the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics offers a wealth of salary information drawn from its employer surveys.
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the main source of education data used to monitor progress towards national and international goals.
Mr Wilson said when looking at statistics, people should consider whether the source had an agenda and whether previous predictions had been accurate.
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If you're keen to digest even more of these sobering statistics, we recommend you hit up the source for the full executive summary and even more infographics.
As usual, we've given you the cheat sheet, so if you'd like the full reports and have got a thing for statistics, there's plenty more in the source links below.
At the annual meeting of the Carbon Disclosure Project--a non-profit investor organization devoted to greater transparency in greenhouse gas emission statistics--Sun released a set of open-source software tools that companies can use to track carbon emissions.
The three big rules of research, as they were taught to me in high school, are pay attention to source bias, never trust the Internet (especially Wikipedia), and remember that statistics can be misleading.
The study was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, which as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regularly uses telephone surveys as a source of information about public health trends.
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