Handling file uploading from www forms with CGI.pm. Decoding Climate Change with Perl, gnuplot and Google Earth. Back in August The New York Times reported that the word ‘statistics’ had replaced the word ‘plastics’ in the famous career guidance given in the film The Graduate.
And more recently the same paper reported that data and its analysis are the future of science. And it’s not just in business and ivory towers that statistical analysis of masses of data is becoming important: just understanding the wealth of percentages, risk factors and charts that confront us all requires a form of ‘data literacy’. As a recent blog post by John Udell points out, even understanding your electricity bill requires everyday analytical thinking. For those of us who can code (whatever the language) raw data presents a rich target for analysis, and some plain fun crunching numbers to understand them better. Mason HQ: Welcome to Mason.