Thursday, June 12, 2014

FiveThirtyEight: The statistics of names and ages

Great link shared with me today1 from FiveThirtyEight.com.2

FiveThirtyEight: How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name

The data for the name “Brian” from the following graphic from that link caught my eye:

Check out the dot for "Brian"!  Wow!
Check out the dot for “Brian”! Wow!
  1. by former colleague Brian Weaver []
  2. Statistician Nate Silver and crew made fame for correctly predicting the voting results of all 50 states in a recent U.S. Presidential election — 538 signifying the total number of electoral votes. Great stuff from them, in general. Kinda scratched my head when ESPN bought them up, though… []