Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

‘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…
Rising number of anti-Asian attacks

Statistics / Asian, racism

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

Statistics / AI, deepfake, TikTok, Tom Cruise

Chris Ume, with the help of Tom Cruise impersonator Miles Fisher, created highly…
Machine learning to find movie ideas

Statistics / fiction, machine learning, Quartz, Wattpad

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

Statistics / AI, Pamela Mishkin, Pudding, story

Pamela Miskhin, in collaboration with The Pudding, wrote a love story. It’s not…
10 statistical lessons from the past pandemic year

Statistics / coronavirus, learning, Royal Statistical Society

The Royal Statistical Society published ten lessons governments should takeaway from this year,…
Forecasting Covid-19 cases in the early goings

Statistics / coronavirus, forecasting, Youyang Gu

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

Statistics / algorithm, Kristian Lum

Oftentimes we see “algorithms” referenced in various contexts, but the definition of an…
About that one-year decline in life expectancy

Statistics / CDC, coronavirus, life expectancy

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that said life…
AI-generated candy hearts

Statistics / candy, heart, Janelle Shane, neural network

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

Statistics / book, Jer Thorp

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

Statistics / book, David Spiegelhalter

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

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