Mistaken Data

FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…

Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially…

The administration tweeted a chart that shows the Senate Republican health care bill…

Statistics is a game of subtleties, and you lose when you don’t pay…

Government data isn’t always the easiest to use with computers. Maybe it’s in…

This is what happens when there is a disconnect between data and what…

Last week, Facebook announced that it was making the Trending Topics section more…

As we delve deeper into election season, politicians will spit out more and…

Last week, graduate student Michael J. LaCour was in the news for allegedly…

Last month, This American Life ran a story about research that asked if…

A data-centric look at New England Patriots fumble rates at home made the…

A short post on Bloomberg from 2013 describes the fall of U.S. mens’…

Most people probably wouldn’t think much about this poster that shows the values…

By way of David Kennerr, something in this CNN frame seems off.…

Shutterfly sent promotional emails that congratulate new parents and encourage them to send…

Because Fox News. See also this, this, and this. [Thanks, Meron]…

From the Winnipeg Sun. Something isn’t right here. [via]…

I knew things were bad, but I didn’t know they were this bad.…

Fox News tried to show the change in the top tax rate if…

The Mitt Romney campaign put this venn diagram up a few days ago,…