Statistics

To demonstrate how easy and cheap it is to access the Bluesky firehose,…

For BBC, Zoe Kleinman reports:
Not so long ago, 23andMe was in the…

You’re probably going to see election forecasts more this month, and one candidate…

For The New Yorker, Jay Caspian Kang relates the election’s unwavering randomness to…

For The Guardian, statistician David Spiegelhalter describes three kinds of luck:

Circumstantial luck…

Jed Kolko, the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs of the…

The Data Provenance Initiative audited 14,000 web domains to see how sites currently…

Speaking of the Olympics, Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers talked about the warm-blooded…

Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…

It continues to grow more difficult for federal statistical agencies to accurately measure…

It’s impossible to know the exact number of Covid deaths worldwide, because consistent…

Christopher Wolfram explains his “unnecessarily detailed analysis” of the spelling game from the…

Neven Mrgan describes what it was like to get an AI-generated email from…

Thinking about life and randomness, Cameron Sun modified the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe.…

A Wheel of Fortune contestant employed strategies outlined in a NYT Upshot analysis…

In case you need a large dataset to train your chatbot — and…

Stephen Wolfram gets into modeling biological evolution:
Why does biological evolution work? And,…

It continues to get easier to take someone’s face and put that person…

OpenAI previewed Voice Engine, a model to generate voices that mimic, using just…

For Knowing Machines, an ongoing research project that examines the innards of machine…