Statistics

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…

FiveThirtyEight and The Trace investigate the uncertainty and accuracy of gun injury data…

Getting into data science typically requires that you have access to a decent…

Hey, no one told me that baby name analysis was back in fashion.…

When you try to describe the size of something but don’t have an…

Waffle House activated their storm center in preparation for Hurricane Florence. Their restaurants…

Wikipedia is human-edited, so naturally there are biases towards certain groups of people.…

In a collaboration with Siena College, The Upshot is showing live polling results.…

Datasets are scattered across the web, tucked into cobwebbed corners where nobody can…

Post-game sports interviews tend to sound similar. And when you do say something…

A research study on mortality and alcohol consumption is making the rounds. Its…