Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Americans are dying too much

Statistics / Atlantic, Derek Thompson, mortality

Derek Thompson for The Atlantic highlights recent research comparing mortality in America against…
How Humans Judge Machines

Statistics / book, interaction, machines

How Humans Judge Machines is an academic publication covering the results of experiments…
Machine learning explained at five difficulty levels

Statistics / Hilary Mason, machine learning, Wired

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For their 5 Levels series, Wired brought in…
More detailed data release from Census 2020

Data Sources / Census Bureau, demographics

After a lot of angst over the past few years around undercount, representation,…
Testing the TikTok algorithm

Statistics / algorithm, TikTok, Wall Street Journal

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The Wall Street Journal tested out the TikTok…
An AI chatbot to talk to the dead

Statistics / AI, chatbot, death, fiancee

Joshua Barbeau fed an AI chatbot with old texts from his fiancee who…
Introduction to Deep Learning

Statistics / deep learning, Python, Sebastian Raschka

Sebastian Raschka made 170 videos on deep learning, and you can watch all…
Introduction to Modern Statistics

Statistics / book, introduction

Introduction to Modern Statistics by Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin is a free-to-download…
Billionaire tax rates

Statistics / billionaires, money, ProPublica, taxes

ProPublica anonymously obtained billionaires’ tax returns. Combining the data with Forbes’ billionaire wealth…
Money-in-politics nonprofits merge their datasets

Data Sources / government, money, OpenSecrets, politics

Center for Responsive Politics and National Institute on Money in Politics are merging…
A short film on giving up privacy, for better or worse

Data Sharing / Financial Times, privacy, short film

We know what you did during lockdown is a short fiction film by…
‘Less than 10 percent’ outdoors

Mistaken Data / CDC, coronavirus, New York Times, outdoors

The CDC said that “less than 10 percent” of coronavirus cases were from…
Converting Minecraft worlds to photorealistic ones using neural networks

Statistics / Minecraft, neural network, photorealistic

Researchers from NVIDIA and Cornell University made GANcraft:
GANcraft aims at solving the…
When you don’t own your face

Statistics / Clearview, facial recognition, New York Times, privacy

For The New York Times, Kashmir Hill describes the implications of facial recognition…
Public agencies using facial recognition software without oversight

Statistics / Clearview, facial recognition, police, privacy

An anonymous source supplied BuzzFeed News with usage data from Clearview AI, the…
Technopolitics of the U.S. census

Statistics / census, counting

Dan Bouk and Danah Boyd wrote an essay on the data infrastructure and…
The Data Journalism Handbook

Statistics / book, data journalism

The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice now has a second…
Teaching statistical models with wine tasting

Statistics / modeling, Pudding, wine

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

Statistics / Hannah Fry, limitations

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

Statistics / crime, hate, police, ProPublica

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

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