Lensa is an app that lets you retouch photos, and it recently added…
Mistaken Data
Hm. That does not look right.
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Bias in AI-generated images
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Historical data
Randall Munroe provides another fine observation through xkcd.
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Google Maps incorrectly pointing people to crisis pregnancy centers
Davey Alba and Jack Gillum, for Bloomberg, found that Google Maps commonly points…
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Looking for falsified images in Alzheimer’s study
Charles Piller, for Science, highlights the work of Matthew Schrag, who uses image…
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Unreliable FBI crime data
The Marshall Project and Axios report that the FBI changed their reporting system…
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Simpson’s Paradox in vaccination data
This chart, made by someone who is against vaccinations, shows a higher mortality…
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Scientists with bad data
Tim Harford warns against bad data in science:
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‘Less than 10 percent’ outdoors
The CDC said that “less than 10 percent” of coronavirus cases were from…
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Excel spreadsheet limit leads to 16,000 Covid-19 cases left off daily count
Microsoft Excel is useful for many things, but it has its limitations (like…
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FDA commissioner corrects his misinterpretation of reduced mortality
Talking about a possible plasma treatment for Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration…
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Algorithm leads to arrest of the wrong person
Even though there was supposedly a person in the decision-making process and a…
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Face depixelizer with machine learning, and some assumptions
In crime shows, they often have this amazing tool that turns a low-resolution,…
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Bad bar chart
Welcome to whose bar chart is it anyway: where the geometries are made…
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Bad denominator
With coronavirus testing, many governments have used the percentage of tests that came…
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Poor comparison between two bar charts
A chart from Business Insider makes a poor attempt to compare the death…
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Misinterpreted or misleading fire maps
With all of the maps of fire in Australia, be sure to check…
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Study retracted after finding a mistaken recoding of the data
A study found that a hospital program significantly reduced the number of hospitalizations…
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The ‘impeach this’ map has some issues
Philip Bump explains why the “impeach this” map is a bit dubious:
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NOAA chief scientist highlights the forecast contradiction
In regards to the press release that seemed to contradict the National Weather…
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Why you shouldn’t use ZIP Codes for spatial analysis
For Carto, Matt Forrest explains why you shouldn’t use ZIP codes for spatial…
