Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

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…
Dataset for rejected license plate applications

Data Sources / license plate, Noah Veltman

Noah Veltman just posted a dataset of 23,463 personalized license plate applications that…
Google Dataset Search moves out of beta

Data Sources / datasets, Google, search

Over a year ago, Google released Dataset Search in public beta. The goal…
To get your personal data, provide more personal data

Statistics / New York Times, privacy, security

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

Statistics / facial recognition, New York Times, police

For The New York Times, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries looked at the current state of…
Squirrel census count in Central Park

Statistics / counting, Denise Lu, New York Times, squirrels

In 2018, there was a squirrel census count at Central Park in New…
Misinterpreted or misleading fire maps

Mistaken Data / BBC, fire

With all of the maps of fire in Australia, be sure to check…
Scripts from The Office, the dataset

Data Sources / R, scripts, The Office

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

Statistics / Pew Research, religion, sermon, text

Pew Research Center analyzed online sermons in U.S. searches, taking a closer look…
Deaths from child abuse, a starting dataset

Data Sources / Boston Globe, children, deaths, ProPublica

By way of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, ProPublica and The…
AI-generated pies

Statistics / artificial intelligence, Janelle Shane, pie

Janelle Shane applied her know-how with artificial intelligence to generate new types of…
Looking for similar NBA games, based on win probability time series

Statistics / basketball, probability

Inpredictable, a sports analytics site by Michael Beuoy, tracks win probabilities of NBA…
Sephora dataset is a collection of makeup reviews that mention crying

Data Sources / crying, makeup, Sephora

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

Statistics / history, old data

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

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