One might assume decisions that swing economies worldwide were based on careful research…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Simplified tariff calculations, ambiguously reciprocal
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Greatest two-hit wonders
Two-hit wonders are in between the obscure one-hit wonders and famous musicians. Chris…
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23andMe files for bankruptcy
23andMe, the business predicated on people sending cheek swabs to have their DNA…
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New York Times fills poll tracking gap left by FiveThirtyEight shutdown
FiveThirtyEight is gone, and along with its visualization-centric projects, so is their poll…
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Testing citation skills and overconfidence of AI chatbots
When you enter a query in traditional search engines, you get a list…
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Wall of receipts is wall of inconsistent records
The “Department of Government Efficiency” keeps a “Wall of Receipts” to signal transparency…
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Living 82-year-old Social Security recipient erroneously marked as dead
Pam Johnson got an email from her bank about her husband’s death. The…
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AI system to revoke student visas
For Axios, Marc Caputo reports:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an… -
Instead of lying with data, just delete it altogether
Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell, for Washington Post Opinion, highlight the current strategies…
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Political typology quiz
From Pew Research, this political typology quiz is from four years ago but…
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Access FiveThirtyEight resources while they’re still around
Last week, Disney laid off FiveThirtyEight employees and announced the site would cease…
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Frozen government money pipe
Planet Money explains the Daily Treasury Statement from the U.S. Treasury. The data…
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Creativity and optimization
For The New York Times, Siobhan Roberts talked to mathematician and Fields Medal…
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Optimizing basketball, too much
For Bloomberg, Ira Boudway reports on NBA basketball going too far with the…
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Survey answers and framing the question
When you see surveys that supposedly ask the same question, you might wonder…
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USDA sued for removing climate data
Farming and environmental groups are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing…
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Disconnect between generated and real beauty expectations
Generative AI is readily accessible these days, which has led to an influx…
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Perceptron algorithm from the 1950s and its ties to LLMs
Welch Labs explains how the perceptron, an algorithm developed by Frank Rosenblatt in…
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$8 billion was actually $8 million in DOGE mistake
The DOGE site has a “wall of receipts” that claims $55 billion in…
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150-year-olds probably not receiving Social Security benefits
The Department of Government Efficiency claims data in the Social Security Administration database…