Dell Cameron, for Wired, on the system currently in its planning phase:
Throughout,…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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ICE planning a surveillance system that integrates more data streams and 24/7 monitoring
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LinkedIn sues company for fake bots
Suzanne Smalley reporting for The Record:
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Census data down
Due to the government shutdown, parts of the Census Bureau site, where you…
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Trust and transparency in government data
Speaking of the BLS, economist David Wessel joins Jonathan Schwabish on the PolicyViz…
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Fired BLS chief on how the day happened
Erika McEntarfer, the former chief for the Bureau of Labor Statistics made her…
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Real polling asks real people, unlike synthetic sampling
Synthetic sampling uses models to “survey” fake respondents. G. Elliott Morris and Verasight…
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Bots account for almost a third of web traffic
Bots have crawled the web for a long time, but the past couple…
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Job growth revised by -911,000
The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised job counts down by almost a million:…
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Music tempo to sonify rising temperatures
NPR enlisted the band Bettis And 3rd Degree to sonify rising temperatures in…
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Reliability of jobs data
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released monthly jobs data, but after the firing…
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Facial recognition software leads to wrong man arrested for flashing
NYPD arrested the wrong man, because facial recognition marked a match. Maria Cramer…
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Hacker accesses crash data against Tesla in $243m ruling
A Tesla Model S, while on “Autopilot”, crashed into a parked truck, killing…
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Scraping the Spotify playlists of public figures
New to me, someone anonymously scraped and published the Spotify playlists of a…
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Evaluating the fairness and gerrymandering of district boundaries
PlanScore uses four measures to define partisan gerrymandering, and they’ve made the data…
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Tracking changes to Census data
Hannah Recht is tracking data through the U.S. Census Bureau APIs:
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Commissioner for Bureau of Labor Statistics appointed
Molly Smith reports for Bloomberg on the appointing of EJ Antoni to head…
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Why economic data requires regular updates
Many are discovering that the Bureau of Labor Statistics updates past estimates, but…
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Lowe’s and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement
The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering…
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National Weather Service trying to refill positions that DOGE removed
During the DOGE-fueled federal firings, which seems like a lifetime ago already, the…
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OpenAI botches the charts in GPT-5 introduction
OpenAI introduced GPT-5 in a livestream, and they used a set of seemingly…