Center for Responsive Politics and National Institute on Money in Politics are merging…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Money-in-politics nonprofits merge their datasets
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A short film on giving up privacy, for better or worse
We know what you did during lockdown is a short fiction film by…
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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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Converting Minecraft worlds to photorealistic ones using neural networks
Researchers from NVIDIA and Cornell University made GANcraft:
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When you don’t own your face
For The New York Times, Kashmir Hill describes the implications of facial recognition…
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Public agencies using facial recognition software without oversight
An anonymous source supplied BuzzFeed News with usage data from Clearview AI, the…
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Technopolitics of the U.S. census
Dan Bouk and Danah Boyd wrote an essay on the data infrastructure and…
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The Data Journalism Handbook
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice now has a second…
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Teaching statistical models with wine tasting
For The Pudding, Lars Verspohl provides an introduction to statistical models disguised as…
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Statistical limits
Reviewing Deborah Stone’s Counting and Tim Harford’s The Data Detective, Hannah Fry discusses…
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Inadequate hate crime statistics
For ProPublica, Ken Schwencke reports on a poor data system that relies on…
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Rising number of anti-Asian attacks
Russell Jeung, chair of the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State…
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DeepTomCruise breakdown
Chris Ume, with the help of Tom Cruise impersonator Miles Fisher, created highly…
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Machine learning to find movie ideas
Speaking of A.I. and fiction, Adam Epstein for Quartz reported on how Wattpad,…
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A.I. love story
Pamela Miskhin, in collaboration with The Pudding, wrote a love story. It’s not…
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10 statistical lessons from the past pandemic year
The Royal Statistical Society published ten lessons governments should takeaway from this year,…
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Forecasting Covid-19 cases in the early goings
There was a lot of uncertainty in the beginning of the pandemic, so…
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Definition of an algorithm
Oftentimes we see “algorithms” referenced in various contexts, but the definition of an…
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About that one-year decline in life expectancy
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that said life…
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AI-generated candy hearts
Continuing her annual tradition, Janelle Shane trained various AI models to generate two-word-all-caps…