Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Primer for geospatial embeddings

Statistics / Development Seed, embeddings, geospatial, guide, training

For Development Seed, Kiri Carini and Martha Morrissey explain what embeddings are and…
Searchable database of the enslaved in former British colonies

Data Sources / database, Guardian, Legacies of British Slavery, slavery

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery published a…
When data shows that everything causes cancer

Statistics / Breakthrough Institute, cancer, causation, Costco

Harvard researchers published an analysis arguing that risk of cancer increases when people…
Bedazzled campus surveillance

Data Sharing / camera, MIT, privacy

Over summer break, MIT installed over 500 AI-enabled surveillance cameras around campus. In…
Estimating a much stronger than usual El Niño

Statistics / Climate.us, El Niño, estimation, NOAA

For Climate.us, Emily Becker explains why it looks like El Niño is going…
India enlists 3 million people to count the full population

Statistics / Bloomberg, census, India, population

Due to Covid, India’s census count is overdue by five years. But they’re…
Darth Vader makes the case for Flock cameras

Data Sharing / Darth Vader, Flock, privacy

Flock Safety has been getting some hate lately, because as it turns out,…
IKEA complexity index

Data Sources / complexity, furniture, Greg Technology, IKEA

Speaking of IKEA, the IKEA complexity index by Greg Technology is a catalog…
Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data

Data Sharing / 404 Media, Flock, privacy, rideshare

To augment its network of license plate readers, surveillance company Flock drew up…
Vehicles with the highest and lowest death rates

Statistics / death, fatal crashes, HLDI, IIHS, vehicles

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has been estimating death rates by vehicle…
Lawn mowing game as traveling salesman problem in disguise

Statistics / game, Pudding, traveling salesman

The Pudding made a game that challenged players to figure out the best…
Timeline of the future

Statistics / future, Manifold, prediction market

As anyone who has watched a time travel movie or is Natasha Bedingfield…
Botched map of Africa in U.S. government presentation

Mistaken Data / generative, presentation, Reuters

In a presentation by the State Department, a generated map provides all the…
Google makes it easy to generate fake satellite imagery

Mistaken Data / ethics, generative, Google, Nano Banana, satellite imagery

Google’s image generation model Nano Banana is now a few clicks away in…
Administration orders for less detailed census data

Statistics / census, noise, NPR, sampling, uncertainty

The administration ordered a ban on methods that allow statistical agencies to publish…
Rise in remote work a factor in young worker unemployment

Statistics / remote, unemployment, work, young

Higher unemployment among young workers has been commonly attributed to generative AI. In…
Names from Census data

Data Sources / Census Bureau, names

The U.S. Census Bureau released a names dataset for first names and surnames.…
Field guide for federal data

Data Sharing / field guide, government

Denice W. Ross and Christopher Steven Marcum, from the University of California at…
State healthcare sites sending data to tech companies

Data Sharing / Bloomberg, government, privacy

For Bloomberg, Tanaz Meghjani, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Surya Mattu report sharing of private…
Masterclass in misleading charts

Mistaken Data / climate change, Hank Green, misleading

Hank Green dissects a video that argues against climate change. The video in…

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