Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Audit advanced data science course online

Statistics / course, data science, Jeff Leek, Johns Hopkins, Roger Peng

Jeff Leek and Roger Peng started their course Advanced Data Science at Johns…
Minimizing risk

Statistics / coronavirus, New York Times, risk

For NYT Opinion, Aaron E. Carroll on doing small things that sum to…
FDA commissioner corrects his misinterpretation of reduced mortality

Mistaken Data / absolute, coronavirus, FDA, relative

Talking about a possible plasma treatment for Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration…
Optimizing a peanut butter and banana sandwich

Statistics / deep learning, optimization, sandwich

How do you assemble a banana and peanut butter sandwich that maximizes the…
Inference of key shape from the sound it makes in the lock

Statistics / keys, security, unlock

Researchers from the National University of Singapore found a way to infer key…
Tracking who’s wearing masks correctly

Social Data Analysis / coronavirus, Los Angeles Times, mask

For The Los Angeles Times, Casey Miller went hyperlocal to track mask wearing…
Census counting during the pandemic

Statistics / census, coronavirus, imputation, New York Times

Reporting for The New York Times, Giovanni Russonello on the decennial census during…
DIY satellite ground station to receive images from NOAA

Data Sharing / NOAA, satellite imagery

You can basically hook up an antennae to your laptop and start receiving…
What YouTube recommendations look like for others

Statistics / recommendations, YouTube

Watch enough YouTube, and you end up in a bubble of videos catered…
Tracking what happens to police after use of force on protestors

Statistics / force, police, ProPublica, protest

You’ve probably seen the videos. ProPublica is tracking to see what happens after:…
Tic-Tac-Toe the Hard Way is a podcast about the human decisions in building a machine learning system

Statistics / Google, machine learning, podcast, Tic-Tac-Toe

From Google’s People + AI Research team, David Weinberger and Yannick Assogba build…
Understanding Covid-19 statistics

Statistics / coronavirus, ProPublica, teaching, uncertainty

For ProPublica, Caroline Chen, with graphics by Ash Ngu, provides a guide on…
Hidden trackers on your phone

Data Sharing / mobile, privacy, recode

Sara Morrison for Recode:
Then there’s Cuebiq, which collected location data through its…
Data on loans issued through the Paycheck Protection Program

Data Sources / business, coronavirus, loans, money

The Paycheck Protection Program was established to provide aid to small businesses. It’s…
Increased case counts not just from increased testing

Statistics / coronavirus, ProPublica, testing

Some attribute increased Covid-19 case counts to increased testing. While that is certainly…
Cataloging all the house number styles

Data Sharing / Dan Kois, house numbers, Slate

Dan Kois walked all of the blocks in his ZIP Code and collected…
Algorithm leads to arrest of the wrong person

Mistaken Data / arrests, bias, facial recognition, police

Even though there was supposedly a person in the decision-making process and a…
Face depixelizer with machine learning, and some assumptions

Mistaken Data / bias, face, pixels

In crime shows, they often have this amazing tool that turns a low-resolution,…
Bad bar chart

Mistaken Data / annotation

Welcome to whose bar chart is it anyway: where the geometries are made…
Failed CDC data pipeline

Data Sharing / CDC, coronavirus, New York Times

The New York Times reports on how the CDC struggled and failed on…

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