Benford's Law and online calculator from fun tech journalism ppl @jplusplus_

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Benford's Law and online calculator from fun tech journalism ppl @jplusplus_

You'll remember Benford's Law for last digit frequency, that helps you spot rigged data:
http://www.badscience.net/2011/09/benfords-law-using-stats-to-bust-an-entire-nation-for-naughtiness/
Well here's an online tool you can use to check any dataset to see if it complies, or has suspicious patterns to it:
http://benford.cloudcontrolled.com/#
It's made by these nice people, who look great
http://jplusplus.org/
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- 31 January 2012
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4 months ago Michael5MacKay (Twitter) responded:

I think you meant leading digit rather than last digit. Sorry to be nitpicky. I really do appreciate the link.

4 months ago Ben Goldacre responded:

Correct, my bad, threw up the link in passing!

Sent from my zx81
Sorry about the typo's

4 months ago michaelandreas responded:

The rising popularity of Benford's law and the according software not only will lead to an increasing number of false alarms, but also will surely lead to a rising awareness of this law in data forgers. There will be easy-to-handle software to make sure forged data conform to Benford's law.
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