Comic 1140 - Calendar of Meaningful Dates

Three hundred and sixty-six dates
All mentioned at different rates.
The top one’s the first
While eleven comes worst.
(September’s a special case, blates.)

Original comic here.

Comic 1138 - Heatmap

Those marvellous marketing chaps
Can show your consumers on maps.
It turns out you’re sellin’
Where people are dwellin’
But scoring a duck in the gaps.

Original comic here.

Comic 1132 - Frequentists vs. Bayesians

When predicting unlikely events
False positives give an immense
Skew to any data
So best wait till later
Before you get coaxed off the fence.

Original comic here.

Comic 1131 - Math

You might risk incurring the wrath
Of folks on the right-forking path
But if interested in
Knowing who’s gonna win
You may as well just do the math.

Original comic here.

Comic 1130 - Poll Watching

Poll happiness or poll dejection?
The smallest things have a connection,
But to get miles ahead
With your foe left for dead
You’d do worse than win the election.

Original comic here.

Comic 1102 - Fastest-Growing

Your religion’s the world’s fastest growing?
That’s got to be something worth knowing.
Hang on – it sounds ample
But how big’s the sample?
Excuse me, I’ve got to be going.

Original comic here.

Comic 988 - Tradition

The American radio trade
Has not heard of Wizzard or Slade.
Their fave festive ditties
All come from the fi'ties
So Shaky just never gets played.

Original comic here.

Comic 985 - Percentage Points

When a senator loses support
The press tell us less than they ought.
Just what, pray, is meant
By "down twenty per cent"?
Down a fifth? Or from twenty to nought?

Original comic here.

Comic 980 - Money

A meticulous chart that compares
The values of all the world’s wares?
If you want to see more
It’s right there in the store
Priced at just fifteen little green squares.

Original comic here.

Classic comic 458 - Regrets

Whether cousin or best friend's half-sister
You need to take more chances, mister.
Or would you like to bet
That more people regret
That they shouldn't than they should have kissed her?

Original comic here.

Comic 963 - X11

I don't want to ring my own bell
But my life's going really quite well.
I'll just check the server...
Kill me, by Minerva!
xorg.conf! Damn it to hell.

Original comic here.

That "comics I didn't really understand label" is getting a lot of use lately. Still, at least we get another appearance from Limerixkcd mascot, the goddess Minerva.

Comic 947 - Investing

There was a young lady from Leicester
Who felt she should be an investor
But a grand safely hid
Won't make three hundred quid
In a decade. It didn't int'rest 'er.

Original comic here.

Comic 937 - TornadoGuard

Five stars tell me "killer app"
And one star tells me "total crapp"
But averaged reviews
Can only confuse
Wiping valuable views off the map.

Original comic here.

Comic 930 - Days of the Week

On Sunday we all go to church.
On Tuesday we meet about merch.
Each Wed is for ladies
And Sat making babies
But Friday you're left in the lurch.

Original comic here.

I wonder whether all those hits about Friday break-ups are fans of the popular 90s indie group Shed Seven.

Comic 925 - Cell Phones

It's a tricksy old thing, correlation,
For even assuming causation,
Does mobile telephony
Rush us to Persephone
Or disease cause its proliferation?

Original comic here.

Comic 882 - Significant

If you test everything willy nilly
No matter how far-fetched or silly
Results will, on occasion,
Show somethin' hair-raisin'
Till the follow-up test says "Not really!"

Original comic here.

My "Epistemology" label is really earning its keep lately.

Classic comic 373 - The Data So Far

I'd quite like to open my mind
About psychics, and things of that kind,
But so far all the data's
Supporting the haters
And leaving believing behind.

Original comic here.

Comic 881 - Probability

The doctor's done her calculation
And told me my life's expectation;
It's meaningless now
Cause the silly old cow
Left out the standard deviation.

Original comic here.

Another rather morbid comic to try and turn into nonsense verse. Worse still, I didn't know enough stats terms to make the last line scan properly.

Comic 870 - Advertising

A bargain-hound from Ensenada
Saved up to a quarter on Prada
Just guess her emotion
When this vague promotion
Turned out to save nada de nada.

Original comic here.

Classic comic 688 - Self-Description

The twenty eight words in my rhyme
Have vowels forty seven - a prime.
Its five lines (a surety)
And syllables thirty
Plus six, letters hold one one nine.

Original comic here.