Statistics

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…

Statistics. I kid, I kid. Hugo Bowne-Anderson, host of the DataFramed podcast, culled…

Ever since the huge forecasting upset in 2016, I’ve tended to stay away…

The camera on the slightly creepy arm takes a picture of the pages…

Wherever more attention or the appearance of it equates to more money, there…

Genetic algorithms are inspired by natural selection, where the system is given a…

As the field grows and needs develop throughout companies, specialization in data science…

Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight has obtained nearly 3 million tweets from accounts…

There’s been some disagreement about who wrote “In My Life” by The Beatles,…