Statistics

Tetris is a game with foundations in randomness. Pieces are distributed randomly to…

Reporting for The Washington Post, Drew Harwell describes the case of the fake…

Mark Rober, who is having a good run of science and engineering videos…

In regards to the press release that seemed to contradict the National Weather…

Hannah Fry, for The New Yorker, describes the puzzle of Statistics to analyze…

Salaries are higher in big cities, but it also cost to live more…

Emily Robinson recently took up Pokémon on Nintendo Switch:
I recently started playing…

In survey data, there is usually an open-ended category for “not applicable” or…

Football season is starting soon, which means many will participate in the age-old…

For Carto, Matt Forrest explains why you shouldn’t use ZIP codes for spatial…

Working from the Quick, Draw! dataset, Moniker dares people to not draw a…

Roger Peng provides a lesson on the roots of R and how it…

Alfred Ng for CNET:
Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, sent a…

Mark Rober, who is great at explaining and demonstrating math and engineering to…

In some public places, such as schools and hospitals, microphones installed with software…

For The New York Times, Kevin Roose on the possibility of machines becoming…

A small discrepancy in a couple of shapefiles led to a misclassification of…

In its inaugural issue, Parametric Press describes how bias can easily come about…

During a game, the range of emotions can vary widely across a crowd.…

ProPublica just released a search tool for nonprofit tax records:
The possibilities are…