Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

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…
Dataset as worldview

Statistics / bias, Hannah Davis

Hannah Davis works with machine learning, which relies on an input dataset to…
Testing Gmail’s tab choices on presidential candidates’ emails

Statistics / election, Gmail, Google, Guardian, The Markup

For many, Gmail automatically categorizes incoming emails to the primary inbox, promotions, and…
Federal budget scaled to per person dollars

Statistics / Alicia Parlapiano, budget, Quoctrung Bui, scale, Upshot

For The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui scaled down the federal budget…
Billionaire’s spending scaled to your net worth

Statistics / money, scale, Washington Post, wealth

We hear about billionaires spending millions of dollars on ads, acquisitions, etc. It…
Data problems in Iowa caucus results

Statistics / caucus, error, Iowa, Upshot

It wasn’t just issues with an app. There appears to be many more…
Privacy algorithm could lead to Census undercount of small towns

Statistics / census, counting, New York Times, privacy

To increase anonymity in the Census records, the bureau is testing an algorithm…
Nationwide database of credibly accused Catholic clergy

Data Sources / accused, Catholic, clergy, ProPublica

For ProPublica, Ellis Simani and Ken Schwencke compiled an interactive database that you…

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