Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Census data downloader to reformat for humans

Data Sources / census, formatting, Los Angeles Times

There is a lot of Census data. You can grab most of the…
Data for 200M traffic stop records

Data Sources / police, tickets, traffic

The Stanford Open Policing Project just released a dataset for police traffic stops…
A game to test your ability to pick random numbers

Statistics / game, randomness

Compared to a computer’s pseudo-random number generator, we are not good at picking…
Case of the 500-mile email

Statistics / email, humor

Trey Harris, a previous tech administrator for a university, tells the story of…
Probability you will break up with your partner

Statistics / breakup, probability, relationships

Rosenfeld, et al. from Stanford University ran a survey in 2009 for a…
Data-driven porn

Statistics / porn

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

Data Sources / Reddit, spelling

Some words are harder to spell than others, and on the internet, sometimes…
When geolocation makes everyone think you stole their phone

Mistaken Data / cartography, location

People show up unannounced at John and his mother Ann’s home in South…
No such thing as raw data

Statistics

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

Mistaken Data / fake, Internet, New York Magazine

Max Read for New York Magazine describes the fake-ness of internet through the…
Following your gut, following the data

Statistics / netflix, relationships, Roger Peng

The Wall Street Journal highlighted a disagreement between data and business at Netflix.…
Spotting AI-generated faces

Mistaken Data / AI, faces, fake

Computers can generate faces that look real. What a time to be alive.…
Apps gather your location and then sell the data

Statistics / location, New York Times, privacy

The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps…
When cycling is faster than driving

Statistics / commute, cycling, Deliveroo, driving

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

Statistics / causation, humor, xkcd

I’m just gonna put this xkcd comic right here.…
Reduced privacy risk in exchange for accuracy in the Census count

Statistics / census, privacy, uncertainty, Upshot

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

Data Sharing / blockchain, GPS

Shannon Mattern for The Atlantic on how blockchain might be useful in mapping…
Lessons from posting a fake map about pies

Mistaken Data / fake, humor, viral

Brian Brettschneider made a joke map randomly designating the favorite pies of certain…
Neural networks to generate music

Statistics / music, neural network

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

Statistics / crime, discrimination, police, Reply All

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

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