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u/zonination's "Got ticked off about skittles posts, so I decided to make a proper analysis for /r/dataisbeautiful [OC]"

The subreddit s/dataisbeautiful was inundated by folks creating color distributions for bags of candy. And because 1) it is Reddit and 2) stats nerds take joy in silly things, candy graphing got out of hand. See below: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/5bojxl/oc_the_data_suggests_that_certain_colors_are_not/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/5bmo3a/color_distribution_of_one_more_partysized_bag_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/5cmemr/a_pie_chart_of_mm_colors_from_a_single_500g_bag_oc/ And because it is Reddit, and, to be a fair, statistically unreliable, other posters would claim that this data WASN'T beautiful because it was a small sample size and didn't generalize. One bag of Skittles, they claimed. didn't tell you a lot about the underlying population of Skittles. Until Redditor zonination came along, bought 35 enormous bags of Skittles, and meticulously documented the color distribution in each ...

Kevin McIntyre's Open Stats Lab

Dr. Kevin McIntryre from Trinity University has created the Open Stats Lab.  OSL provides users with research articles, data sets, and worksheets for studies that illustrate statistical tests commonly taught in Introduction to Statistics. Topics covered, illustrated beautifully by Natalie Perez All of his examples come from Open Science Framework-compliant publications from Psychological Science. McIntyre presents the OSF data (in SPSS, R, and .  CSV files are available ), the original research article, AND a worksheet to accompany each article. Layout for each article/data set/activity. This article demonstrates one-way ANOVA. I know. It can be challenging to find 1) research an UG can follow that 2) contains simple data analyses. And here, McIntryre presents it all. This project was funded by a grant from APS.

A wintery mix of holiday data.

Property of  @JenSacco54 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mariah-carey-christmas_us_561f989be4b0c5a1ce621a69 A wintery example of why range is a crap measure of variability http://qz.com/859303/americas-most-common-christmas-related-injuries-in-charts/