Archive for August 2013

German Election 2013: 1. Strongholds

The German election is only four weeks away, so it might be worthwhile to take a look at the historic data from the elections in 2002, 2005 and 2009. Unfortunately, the voting districts are all but stable, such that a direct comparison is not trivial. The maps show the voting districts, which where won by […]

The new Digital Age – Love it, or Hate it

You might ask yourself what the book of the Google chairman Eric Schmidt has to do on a statistics blog. Well, Google’s success was based on doing the “right statistics” on the “right data” at the “right time”. And not to mention Hal Varian (Google’s Chief Economist) who said: “I keep saying the sexy job in […]