Statistics

For The New York Times, Kashmir Hill describes the implications of facial recognition…

An anonymous source supplied BuzzFeed News with usage data from Clearview AI, the…

Dan Bouk and Danah Boyd wrote an essay on the data infrastructure and…

The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice now has a second…

For The Pudding, Lars Verspohl provides an introduction to statistical models disguised as…

Reviewing Deborah Stone’s Counting and Tim Harford’s The Data Detective, Hannah Fry discusses…

For ProPublica, Ken Schwencke reports on a poor data system that relies on…

Russell Jeung, chair of the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State…

Chris Ume, with the help of Tom Cruise impersonator Miles Fisher, created highly…

Speaking of A.I. and fiction, Adam Epstein for Quartz reported on how Wattpad,…

Pamela Miskhin, in collaboration with The Pudding, wrote a love story. It’s not…

The Royal Statistical Society published ten lessons governments should takeaway from this year,…

There was a lot of uncertainty in the beginning of the pandemic, so…

Oftentimes we see “algorithms” referenced in various contexts, but the definition of an…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that said life…

Continuing her annual tradition, Janelle Shane trained various AI models to generate two-word-all-caps…

I’m also looking forward to Jer Thorp’s Living in Data, which comes out…

While we’re on the topic of Statistics books for the general public, David…

Tim Harford has a new book coming out tomorrow called The Data Detective:…

With vaccines, we might be tempted to jump back into “normal” life before…