Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Seeing the NEWS in square stanzas

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Reading today's Washington Post, a surprising statistic:                Sharks don't kill                as   many               ...
Friday, June 5, 2015

A portrait of TB in numbers

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Poet Sarah Browning recently directed me to "Tuberculosis in Numbers," a fine poem by M. Brett Gaffney that appears in the latest...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

ABC of statistics

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     Songwriter Larry Lesser is a co-organizer (with Gizem Karaali ) of a poetry-with-mathematics reading at the Joint Mathematics Meeting...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Out of 100 -- in the Klondike Gold Rush

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Adding to my recent post on 19 August I note that OEDILF is seeking submissions.     Join the project :  submit limerick definitions of...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Storm Sandy -- and climate change

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     That      storm      Sandy      has caused more      people to believe      climate change is real and awful      than the piles of sta...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Fibs in NZ -- and climate change

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     A few days ago, on August 21, it was Poet's Day in New Zealand and the blog sciencelens.com featured a math-poetry theme ; that po...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Statistics -- math to improve man's lot

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Today's poem honors nurse and statistician Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) and is found in a fine poetry collection by Mary Alexandra...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Statistics -- a lament

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     Helping me to continue to connect National Poetry Month with Mathematics Awareness Month (with its theme of "Mathematics, Statist...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Math or poetry -- must one choose?

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April celebrates poetry and mathematics -- it being both National Poetry Month and Mathematics Awareness Month -- and this year's mat...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Szymborska (1923-2012) on Statistics

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Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012)  won the 1996 Nobel Prize for literature; I am saddened by her death -- yesterday, February 1, ...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Statistics feels like poetry

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    Today's title comes from the following poem by statistician and poet Eveline Pye (introduced to this blog on 18 October, 2011 ).  ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

More statistics -- from Hiawatha

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As the author of this poem owes a debt to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, I too owe Greg Coxson -- who showed the poem to me. Hiawatha Designs...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Average, more or less . . .

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The wit of American poet J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) is here applied to statistics.    Meditation on Statistical Method        by J. V. ...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Things the fingers know

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Blogger Peter Cameron sent me a link to an lively article, " Eveline Pye: Poetry in Numbers "  in the September 2011 issue of the...
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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Applying statistics . . .

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From Seattle poet Kathleen Flenniken , a sensitive application of the normal distribution to the population of participants in an elementary...
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