Why can’t we have more fun with numbers? Within a matter of a week, reports of 2 unrelated advertising campaigns made numbers resonate in a very innovative way. The first was a campaign reported in Ad ...

This was originally posted at ZDNet's Between the Lines. If you've been following the headlines of late you'll find that StatCounter's research arm, a Web tracking service most Webheads are familiar ...

Howdy and welcome back to Fun With Numbers, the weekly Good Bull Hunting deep dive into advanced statistics. It’s November, the Aggies control their destiny, and have three conference opponents left ...

Coaches weren't crazy about the new rule requiring ejections for players targeting defenseless players above the shoulders. But through the first six weeks of the season, statistics show the rule ...

One of the maxims of investing is that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. Which brings us to one of the hottest business books around, "Dow 36,000" (Times ...

Ever realize how much fun you can have with numbers? One might argue that they are merely written symbols that represent values assigned by humans with varying degrees of accuracy. Pretty dry. Pretty ...

Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, it’s time to play the Aspen/Burlingame Math Show. Welcome to all our contestants (sometimes called constituents). Here are the rules of the game: 1. Everyone can ...

Let’s have some fun with numbers. According to the official figures, the national debt currently stands at $14.01 trillion dollars. That’s more than $45,000 per citizen, or almost $127,000 per ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The story was already great, even before Daniel Gilbert opened his first spreadsheet. Thousands of citizens in ...