Radar Roundup: Data Mining and Visualization

Simple Complexity): how did the stats-savvy top players on a gambling website figure out that they were losing to cheats rather than just better players? They gathered and graphed the stats, and the bad guy stood out like the proverbial sore thumb. That's a link to a summary of the story, the full details are also online

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People interested in complex visualizations may enjoy reading my master's thesis:

Generation of Complex Diagrams: How to Make Lasagna Instead of Spaghetti.

My focus in that paper is on visualization of qualitative information, but the methods apply to quantitative data as well. I'm always interested in feedback, questions, and interesting data sets to play with.

Cheers, Noah

These multi-table Championship safety?

A. absolute security. Many people are worried that two people in the cash games will be on the table with cheating. However, each site has online software to detect this situation, and to play cards with people often marked out in the championship sitting in random arrangements. When you start to play cards not only the seat is random, and the game you will find yourself constantly in different table to play cards because they have to ensure that every table is full (or nearly full case).