CBS News picked up four used photocopiers and looked at the hard drives.…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Every document copy stored on used digital photocopiers
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Challenges ahead for the Census count
The 2020 Census is coming up quick, but there’s still a lot up…
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Using statistical models to win almost $1B in horse-race gambling
I think this is what statistics is truly for.
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People relationships in data analysis
Roger Peng discusses the importance of managing the relationships between people — analyst,…
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Is the hot hand in basketball real?
With Numberphile, Lisa Goldberg discusses her research with Alon Daks and Nishant Desai…
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Building a robot boyfriend
When it comes to robots and love, the concept typically deteriorates to subservient…
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Knitters and the neural network-trained machine
Janelle Shane, who likes to play with output from neural networks, teamed up…
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Here’s what you get when you cross dinosaurs and flowers with deep learning
Neural networks have shown usefulness with a number of things, but here is…
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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…