Statistics

New to me, someone anonymously scraped and published the Spotify playlists of a…

PlanScore uses four measures to define partisan gerrymandering, and they’ve made the data…

Hannah Recht is tracking data through the U.S. Census Bureau APIs:
The Census…

Molly Smith reports for Bloomberg on the appointing of EJ Antoni to head…

Many are discovering that the Bureau of Labor Statistics updates past estimates, but…

The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering…

During the DOGE-fueled federal firings, which seems like a lifetime ago already, the…

OpenAI introduced GPT-5 in a livestream, and they used a set of seemingly…

Hansi Lo Wang reporting for NPR:
The 14th Amendment requires the “whole number…

Matt Seaton, for the Atlantic, reports on how the statistical approach impacted cycling…

N. Gregory Mankiw and Cecilia Rouse, both former chairs of the Council of…

For the New York Times, Ben Casselman highlights the potential repercussions for shunning…

The prior commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics had some things to…

For the Atlantic, Alexandra Petri on the president’s approach to data:
And now,…

The administration disagreed with the jobs count released by the Bureau of Labor…

The American Statistical Association released a report last year on the growing challenges…

For New York Times Magazine, Devin Gordon profiled popular oddsmaker Mazi VS, a…

Birds have a strong ability to learn and mimic sounds. So, Benn Jordan…

For 404 Media, Joseph Cox describes an app, Mobile Fortify, that ICE officers…

For the Associated Press, Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz report:
The database will…