Statistics

While there are laws in the U.S. to protect some of your privacy…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a reduction in data collection to put…

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen played against 143,000 people in a single game. The…

A couple years ago, Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data,…

Downloading survey microdata from public resources can be tricky. Sometimes the documentation is…

Roger Peng and Hilary Parker started the statistics and data science podcast Not…

For the Intercept, Sam Biddle reports on government plans for a one-stop shop…

For The Washington Post, Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer report on a system…

Last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new rule that would…

We usually think about mortality in terms of events that happened, because it’s…

In February, farmers sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing data related…

Card counting is a method to keep track of the cards left in…

The birthday effect is a statistical anomaly that shows higher likelihood of death…

There are plans to reduce staffing at the Social Security Administration by 7,000…

The NOAA database, dubbed Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters, tracked events that exceeded…

It’s a temporary suspension, for now. For the Washington Post, Maxine Joselow reports:…

The Deportation Data Project, launched by a group of researchers and lawyers, is…

Joseph Palitano breaks down the contribution of tariffs to the shrinking economy.
The…

Each year, poverty thresholds are calculated based on the cost of living, so…

Election data should be publicly available and easy to access at high granularity,…