Nathan Yau

Issie Lapowsky for Wired:
The change that’s already come to Pennsylvania may not…

As you can imagine, there was plenty of conversation between Earth and Apollo…

Research by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie Jones, and Sonya Porter from the…

Army ants function without a leader and yet accomplish very organized-looking things, such…

Frustrated with vehicles blocking bus and bike lanes, Alex Bell applied some statistical…

Michael W. Kearney implemented a classifier for Twitter bots. It’s called botornot:
Uses…

The Upshot has used a needle to show shifts in their live election…

Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance.

Kofi Annan for Nature on the importance of data in ending poverty and…

Many cities provide free bus tickets for homeless people who want to relocate.…

Speaking of outliers, it’s not always obvious when and why a data point…

Neural networks can feel like a black box, because, well, for most people…

I think it’s every statistician’s fantasy to crack open a lottery’s flaw using the numbers. No? Just me? Okay, whatever.

In a project he calls Sentence Space, Robin Sloan implemented a neural network…

False positives. Over-policing. Bias. This isn’t stuff you just mess around with.

Smart home. Smart city. They have a positive ring to it. But we assume everyone uses it only for good things.

556 people have gone to space. In an article on their changed perspectives,…