For The Atlantic, Ian Bogost on communicating complex ideas to an audience:
One…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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The Myth of ‘Dumbing Down’
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Study retracted after finding a mistaken recoding of the data
A study found that a hospital program significantly reduced the number of hospitalizations…
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FiveThirtyEight launches new NBA metric for predictions
FiveThirtyEight has been predicting NBA games for a few years now, based on…
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PG&E providing shapefiles, instead of a working map for shutoffs
Here in northern California, PG&E is shutting off power to thousands of households…
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The ‘impeach this’ map has some issues
Philip Bump explains why the “impeach this” map is a bit dubious:
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Statistical fallacies in the news
For UnHerd, Tom Chivers, talks about David Spiegelhalter’s new book and why every…
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AI-generated faces as stock photos
The Generated Photos project is a work in progress to provide realistic AI-generated…
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History of Tetris randomizers
Tetris is a game with foundations in randomness. Pieces are distributed randomly to…
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AI-generated voice used to fake phone call and steal money
Reporting for The Washington Post, Drew Harwell describes the case of the fake…
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Statistical uncertainty as certainty
Mark Rober, who is having a good run of science and engineering videos…
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NOAA chief scientist highlights the forecast contradiction
In regards to the press release that seemed to contradict the National Weather…
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Useful and not so useful Statistics
Hannah Fry, for The New Yorker, describes the puzzle of Statistics to analyze…
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Where salaries stretch the farthest
Salaries are higher in big cities, but it also cost to live more…
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Optimizing a Pokémon team with simulation
Emily Robinson recently took up Pokémon on Nintendo Switch:
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People who answer “don’t know” to obvious questions
In survey data, there is usually an open-ended category for “not applicable” or…
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Fantasy football draft rankings, with weekly projections
Football season is starting soon, which means many will participate in the age-old…
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Why you shouldn’t use ZIP Codes for spatial analysis
For Carto, Matt Forrest explains why you shouldn’t use ZIP codes for spatial…
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Machine learning to erase penis drawings
Working from the Quick, Draw! dataset, Moniker dares people to not draw a…
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What is R, what it was, and what it will become
Roger Peng provides a lesson on the roots of R and how it…
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Amazon stores voice recordings indefinitely
Alfred Ng for CNET:
Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, sent a…