Statistics

People show up unannounced at John and his mother Ann’s home in South…

Nick Barrowman on the myth of raw data:
Assumptions inevitably find their way…

Max Read for New York Magazine describes the fake-ness of internet through the…

The Wall Street Journal highlighted a disagreement between data and business at Netflix.…

Computers can generate faces that look real. What a time to be alive.…

The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps…

Deliveroo is a service that picks up and delivers food. Data from their…

I’m just gonna put this xkcd comic right here.…

Mark Hansen for The Upshot describes the search for balance between individual privacy…

Shannon Mattern for The Atlantic on how blockchain might be useful in mapping…

Brian Brettschneider made a joke map randomly designating the favorite pies of certain…

Kyle McDonald describes some of the history and current research on using algorithms…

I’m behind on my podcast listening (well, behind in everything tbh), but Reply…

Atma Mani, a geospatial engineer for ESRI, imagined shopping for a house with…

Artificial intelligence, given its name, sounds like a computer learns everything its own.…

Data grows more intertwined with the everyday and more involved in important decisions.…

The Economist built an election model that treats demographic variables like blocks that…

High school seniors, in the Political Statistics class at Montgomery Blair High School…

There are many racial disparities in education. ProPublica shows estimates for the gaps:…

When you drink bubble tea, ideally you’d like to finish with the same…