Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

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…
What the federal government has been buying and where from

Data Sources / coronavirus, procurement, ProPublica

The Federal Procurement Data System tracks federal contracts of $10,000 or more. For…
Based on poll, a lot of people think Bill Gates is plotting to inject a tracker via coronavirus vaccine?

Statistics / Bill Gates, coronavirus, vaccine, Yahoo, YouGov

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll recently showed this:

Only 40% of American adults are…
Bad denominator

Mistaken Data / Atlantic, CDC, coronavirus, denominator, testing

With coronavirus testing, many governments have used the percentage of tests that came…
Florida data manager fired over transparency of Covid-19 data

Data Sharing / coronavirus, dashboard, Florida, Rebekah Jones

Rebekah Jones, GIS manager for the Florida Department of Health, was fired a…
Machine learning to make a dictionary of words that do not exist

Statistics / machine learning, Thomas Dimson, words

Thomas Dimson trained a model to generate words that don’t exist in real…
Comparing Covid-19 models

Statistics / coronavirus, FiveThirtyEight, modeling

FiveThirtyEight compared six Covid-19 models for a sense of where we might be…
Looking for generational gaps in music

Statistics / generations, music, Pudding

Inspired by the genre of YouTube videos where younger people listen to older…

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