A small discrepancy in a couple of shapefiles led to a misclassification of…
Mistaken Data
Hm. That does not look right.
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Millions of dollars in tax breaks — because of a mapping error
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Big storm on the way. Oh wait, no, it’s a cloud of ladybugs
Apparently ladybugs migrate this time of year, and it’s enough to show up…
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When geolocation makes everyone think you stole their phone
People show up unannounced at John and his mother Ann’s home in South…
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Fake internet
Max Read for New York Magazine describes the fake-ness of internet through the…
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Spotting AI-generated faces
Computers can generate faces that look real. What a time to be alive.…
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Lessons from posting a fake map about pies
Brian Brettschneider made a joke map randomly designating the favorite pies of certain…
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When data is not quite what it seems
FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…
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When the interesting pattern ends up just being computer byproduct
Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially…
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Misleading Medicaid funding with the baseline
The administration tweeted a chart that shows the Senate Republican health care bill…
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Common statistical interpretation mistakes
Statistics is a game of subtleties, and you lose when you don’t pay…
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Data distributed as clipart
Government data isn’t always the easiest to use with computers. Maybe it’s in…
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Skittle disconnect
This is what happens when there is a disconnect between data and what…
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Sans human, Facebook’s Trending Topics algorithm faired poorly
Last week, Facebook announced that it was making the Trending Topics section more…
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Guide to spotting data BS
As we delve deeper into election season, politicians will spit out more and…
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Science formally retracts LaCour paper
Last week, graduate student Michael J. LaCour was in the news for allegedly…
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Graduate student makes up data for fake findings
Last month, This American Life ran a story about research that asked if…
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Questionable fumble statistics for Deflate-Gate
A data-centric look at New England Patriots fumble rates at home made the…
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Basic chart, wrong conclusions
A short post on Bloomberg from 2013 describes the fall of U.S. mens’…
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Unintentional Venn diagram suggests opposite meaning
Most people probably wouldn’t think much about this poster that shows the values…
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Geography.
By way of David Kennerr, something in this CNN frame seems off.…
