Statistics

Noah Veltman just posted a dataset of 23,463 personalized license plate applications that…

Over a year ago, Google released Dataset Search in public beta. The goal…

File another one under the sounds-good-on-paper-but-really-challenging-in-practice. Kashmir Hill, for The New York Times,…

For The New York Times, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries looked at the current state of…

In 2018, there was a squirrel census count at Central Park in New…

With all of the maps of fire in Australia, be sure to check…

The decade is almost done. You’re sitting there and you’re thinking: “I wish…

Pew Research Center analyzed online sermons in U.S. searches, taking a closer look…

By way of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, ProPublica and The…

Janelle Shane applied her know-how with artificial intelligence to generate new types of…

Inpredictable, a sports analytics site by Michael Beuoy, tracks win probabilities of NBA…

Interested in reviews on the Sephora website for waterproof makeup, Connie Ye figured…

Stephen M. Stigler argues that data have a limited shelf life. The abstract:…

For The Atlantic, Ian Bogost on communicating complex ideas to an audience:
One…

A study found that a hospital program significantly reduced the number of hospitalizations…

FiveThirtyEight has been predicting NBA games for a few years now, based on…

Here in northern California, PG&E is shutting off power to thousands of households…

Philip Bump explains why the “impeach this” map is a bit dubious:
By…

For UnHerd, Tom Chivers, talks about David Spiegelhalter’s new book and why every…

The Generated Photos project is a work in progress to provide realistic AI-generated…