TED 2005 - How juries are fooled by statistics - Peter Donnelly

An oldie but still goodie - Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly explains why some juries are making mistakes when deciding what the probability is for an event to happen.



There was also an article in the NYTimes about this subject.

How to Process, Analyze and Visualize Data

Another great course on MIT OpenCourseWare: How to process, analyze and visualize data. Through different examples, fundamental concepts of data analysis and visualisation are presented in a clear way. My favorite part deals with the analysis of text documents.

All the codes are written in python, and it assumes the reader has a working knowledge of the language plus the ability to install some development libraries. A basic understanding of statistics is also of great help.