Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

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…
Neural network generates convincing songs by famous singers

Statistics / Jukebox, music, neural network, OpenAI

Jukebox from OpenAI is a generative model that makes music in the same…
Text-to-speech models trained on celebrity voices

Statistics / celebrity, deepfake, neural network, voice

The Vocal Synthesis channel on YouTube trains text-to-speech models using publicly available celebrity…
Testing the infinite monkey theorem

Statistics / infinite monkey, music, Pudding

If you have a room of monkeys hitting keys on typewriters for an…
Not making Covid-19 charts

Statistics / coronavirus, responsibility, uncertainty, Will Chase

Will Chase, who specialized in visualization for epidemiological studies in grad school, outlined…
Challenges of making a reliable Covid-19 model

Statistics / coronavirus, FiveThirtyEight, modeling

Fatalities from Covid-19 range from the hundreds of thousands to the millions. Nobody…
Coronavirus data at the state and county level, from The New York Times

Data Sources / coronavirus, New York Times

Comprehensive national data on Covid-19 has been hard to come by through government…
Johns Hopkins providing course on using epidemiology to understand the Covid-19 numbers

Statistics / course, epidemiology, Johns Hopkins

The numbers are fuzzy. You take them at face value, and you end…
Poor comparison between two bar charts

Mistaken Data / Business Insider, comparison

A chart from Business Insider makes a poor attempt to compare the death…
Communicating a crisis

Statistics / communication, crisis, David Spiegelhalter

David Spiegelhalter on communicating a crisis:
There are some basic principles, which I…
Restaurant struggles

Data Sources / coronavirus, OpenTable, restaurant

The restaurant industry is taking a big hit right now, as most people…
Understanding data and statistics in the medical literature

Statistics / academic, book

Jeffrey Leek, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, and Elizabeth Matsui have a free/ pay-what-you-want book…
Possible coronavirus deaths compared against other causes

Statistics / coronavirus, mortality, uncertainty, Upshot

Based on estimates from public health researcher James Lawler, The Upshot shows the…
All data is wrong

Statistics / uncertainty, Vicki Boykis

Vicki Boykis riffing off the George Box quote, “All models are wrong, some…

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