Statistics

Apparently ladybugs migrate this time of year, and it’s enough to show up…

Ivana Seric is a data scientist for the Philadelphia 76ers who tries to…

Ted Mellnik and Reuben Fischer-Baum for The Washington Post describe the changes to…

A note on a pack of Skittles reads, “No two rainbows are the…

Monica Ramirez tried her hand with modeling deaths on Game of Thrones and…

James Holzhauer is the new hotness on Jeopardy! with Daily Double hunting, big…

Caitlin Dewey for OneZero describes the case of the Fruit Belt neighborhood in…

Los Angeles Clippers commentator Ralph Lawler has a saying: “First to 100 wins.…

Generative models can seem like a magic box where you plug in observed…

Feeding off the words of John Tukey, Roger Peng proposes a search for…

For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy on privacy and how easy it…

FiveThirtyEight uses forecasts to attach probabilities to politics and sports, and they get…

Context makes data useful. Without it, it’s easy to get lost in numbers…

There is a lot of Census data. You can grab most of the…

The Stanford Open Policing Project just released a dataset for police traffic stops…

Compared to a computer’s pseudo-random number generator, we are not good at picking…

Trey Harris, a previous tech administrator for a university, tells the story of…

Rosenfeld, et al. from Stanford University ran a survey in 2009 for a…

Gustavo Turner for Logic on his experiences covering the porn industry and the…

Some words are harder to spell than others, and on the internet, sometimes…