Statistics

Synthetic sampling uses models to “survey” fake respondents. G. Elliott Morris and Verasight…

Bots have crawled the web for a long time, but the past couple…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised job counts down by almost a million:…

NPR enlisted the band Bettis And 3rd Degree to sonify rising temperatures in…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released monthly jobs data, but after the firing…

NYPD arrested the wrong man, because facial recognition marked a match. Maria Cramer…

A Tesla Model S, while on “Autopilot”, crashed into a parked truck, killing…

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…