Statistics

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:…

Seth Godin on the importance of judgment:
AI is a tool, and judgment,…

Benj Edwards reporting for Ars Techinca:
In “Large Language Models, Small Labor Market…

For Rolling Stone, Miles Klee reports on a growing trend where ChatGPT disrupts…

A promise behind AI is that it will do all the hard work…

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

Mark Zuckerberg, in a podcast with Dwarkesh Patel, envisions a future where we…

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…

For the Guardian, Nesrine Malik warns of generative AI leading towards a reality…

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

DOGE is taking agency data in an effort to compile a master database…

The National Bureau of Economic Research studied before-and-after effects of about 20,000 users…

As data provides ways to more accurately estimate how things are going, the…

If you use NOAA data, now seems like a good time to download…

DOGE engineers were at the NLRB for a week but didn’t specify what…

For Associated Press, Fatima Hussein reports:
The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue…