A couple years ago, Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data,…
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Professor who studied honesty loses tenure over faked data
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Caring Data
Hi folks. It’s Nathan. Welcome to the Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members…
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Progressive tax rates in Western Europe
There is always ample discussion about progressive tax rates in the United States.…
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Unknowable energy footprint
For MIT Technology Review, James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart ran numbers and interviewed…
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AI energy usage, rough estimates for the hardware
Hardware for AI uses a whole lot of energy while training on data…
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Survey microdata for free
Downloading survey microdata from public resources can be tricky. Sometimes the documentation is…
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Last episode of Not So Standard Deviations podcast
Roger Peng and Hilary Parker started the statistics and data science podcast Not…
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Data-driven story on the first vaccine
As we enter a time when people question the usefulness of vaccines, even…
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Pay more taxes and receive less
The Congressional Budget Office published a report estimating effects on household income if…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, May 2025 Roundup
The good stuff from May: tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from.
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Schools with the most international students
As the administration tries to block international students from attending Harvard University, NYT’s…
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Education as an export
The administration is making it more difficult if not impossible for foreign students…
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Marketplace for government agencies to buy all the personal data about Americans
For the Intercept, Sam Biddle reports on government plans for a one-stop shop…
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Undisclosed surveillance with facial recognition in New Orleans
For The Washington Post, Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer report on a system…
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Fading lights in Ukraine mapped
Ukraine has suffered ongoing damage to their power infrastructure since the invasion began.…
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Lower science funding so far in 2025
With a circular voronoi diagram, NYT’s the Upshot shows a much slower rate…
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Privacy from data brokers canceled
Last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new rule that would…
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Conflicting points of view over the same data
This week we look at how the same data can easily lead to different conclusions that can all be correct, even when they conflict.
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MVP honors dominated by international NBA players
Kirk Goldsberry plotted MVP winners in the NBA, by nationality. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander from…
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Map of an upside down world
While we’re on maps oriented in unfamiliar ways, Robert Simmon made an upside…