Neural networks have shown usefulness with a number of things, but here is…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Here’s what you get when you cross dinosaurs and flowers with deep learning
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Hans Rosling wrote a book on Factfulness
Hans Rosling was able to build excitement around data like no other. Truth…
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Strictly statistical approach
This comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal speaks to me.
You can quantify…
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Datasets for teaching data science
Rafael Irizarry introduces the dslabs package for real-life datasets to teach data science:…
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Traveling salesman image drawing
This is a fun drawing experiment in R by Antonio Sánchez Chinchón. A…
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Cities like yours
There are many ways to estimate how similar two cities are — weather,…
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Tracking her boyfriend on Strava
Elizabeth Barber was in a long-distance relationship, and Strava was a way for…
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Facebook logs calls and text messages
Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian:
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What Facebook and Google know about you
Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…
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Steve Jobs on data privacy
From 2010, Steve Jobs on data privacy:…
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Citizenship question returning to Census
Emily Baumgaertner reporting for The New York Times:
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Charts, maps, and statistics helped stop gerrymandering in Pennsylvania
Issie Lapowsky for Wired:
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Army ant bridge-buliding algorithm
Army ants function without a leader and yet accomplish very organized-looking things, such…
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Machine learning to estimate when bus and bike lanes blocked
Frustrated with vehicles blocking bus and bike lanes, Alex Bell applied some statistical…
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Bot or Not: A Twitter user classifier
Michael W. Kearney implemented a classifier for Twitter bots. It’s called botornot:
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Needle of uncertainty
The Upshot has used a needle to show shifts in their live election…
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Using data to help end malnutrition
Kofi Annan for Nature on the importance of data in ending poverty and…
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What a neural network sees
Neural networks can feel like a black box, because, well, for most people…
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Lottery hacking, winning millions
I think it’s every statistician’s fantasy to crack open a lottery’s flaw using the numbers. No? Just me? Okay, whatever.
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Sentence gradients to see the space between two sentences
In a project he calls Sentence Space, Robin Sloan implemented a neural network…