Just before the social network Parler went down, a researcher who goes by…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Mining Parler data
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Not so likely life of The Simpsons
For The Atlantic, Dani Alexis Ryskamp compares the financials of The Simpsons against…
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Machine learning to find a recipe for a baked good that’s half cake and half cookie
Last year, around the time when people were baking a lot of things,…
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Neural network creates images from text
OpenAI trained a neural network that they call DALL·E with a dataset of…
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Blob Opera is a machine learning model you can make music with
David Li, in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture, made a fun experiment…
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Data for all of the referee calls in NBA games
Owen Phillips compiled per game and cumulative foul calls for all NBA referees…
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Through the eyes of the algorithm
Eugene Wei looks closer at the algorithms that drive TikTok and how its…
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Scented candle reviews on Amazon and Covid-19
Prompted by a tweet about scented candles without smell and Covid-19, Kate Petrova…
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Jobs of a data scientist
Roger Peng outlines four main roles of a data scientist:
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U.S. military buys location data from apps
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
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Debunking claims of election rigging
There’s a video (one of too many I am sure) going around that…
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Student surveillance and online proctoring
To combat cheating during online exams, many schools have utilized services that try…
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Estimate your Covid-19 risk, given location and activities
The microCOVID Project provides a calculator that lets you put in where you…
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Using the FiveThirtyEight model, see how the election odds shift with different scenarios
With each model update, FiveThirtyEight runs 40,000 simulations, or what-ifs, to calculate the…
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Tips for not letting polls and forecasts occupy your mind for two weeks
For FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver provides tips to stay less stressed staring into the…
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Making a convincing deepfake
For MIT Technology Review, Karen Hao looks into the process of artists Francesca…
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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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Google search trends dataset for Covid-19 symptoms
Google released a search trends dataset earlier this month. Using this dataset, Adam…
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Census undercount
For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek and Andrew Whitby on what might happen if…
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Friends sitcom transcript dataset
For your analytical perusal, Emil Hvitfeldt provides ten seasons’ worth of scripts from…