Trevor Martin for FiveThirtyEight used latent semantic analysis to do math with subreddits,…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Subreddit math with r/The_Donald helps show topic breakdowns
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Scrabble data and analysis
Looking for some data to play with? James P. Curley compiled Scrabble data…
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Complement data with emotion for full effect
Data is a great vehicle for arguments, but the (not just visual) perception…
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Economics of airline class
Wendover Productions explains basic economics of airline classes. The passengers in first class…
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Most typical city in America
Here’s a fun piece by Karl Sluis. He looked at eight demographic metrics,…
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Easily download large-ish survey datasets
Many government organizations release microdata for surveys every year. It comes as anonymized…
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States most similar to the US overall
“Normal America.” I’m not sure what that means anymore, but at some point…
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Open data from The White House returns no results
When you search for datasets on The White House site, you get nothing.…
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Data Selfie: Chrome extension logs what Facebook learns about you
Facebook logs data about you and how you use their application. I know…
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RIP Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling passed away this morning. The man. The legend.…
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Controlling the Unaccountable Algorithm
BBC Radio 4 looks at algorithms in our everyday lives and why we…
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Declining trust in statistics
Statistics took a hit this election season, and it could be a slow…
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Counting large crowds
So the inauguration was on Friday, and there’s been some disagreement about how…
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Interview with Sesame Street’s Count von Count
Focusing on immigrant characters in television shows, The Guardian US’s data editor Mona…
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How Bayesian inference works
You might remember Bayes mentioned a few times in your introduction to statistics…
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Minimizing discrimination in machine learning
From Google Research, a look at how discrimination in machine learning can lead…
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Handwriting with a neural network
Continuing the neural network explorations, Shan Carter and team of Google Brain and…
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Google A.I. Experiments
In an effort to get people more interested in and to learn about…
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Newspaper endorsements since 1980
Noah Veltman put together a history of newspapers’ presidential endorsements since 1980 for…
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Sentiment analysis on Trump and Clinton faces during debate
For anyone who watched the presidential debates, I think it was fairly obvious…