This is what happens when there is a lull during the basketball playoff…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Counting the times Kevin Durant’s shoe came off during games
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A guide for applying to data science jobs
Emily Robinson gives advice on applying for a data science job (that you…
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Increasing similarity of Billboard songs
Popular songs on the Billboard charts always tended to sound similar, but these…
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When surveillance turns into stalking
Many surveillance apps cater to parents who want to keep tabs on their…
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Amazon Rekognition for government surveillance
Amazon’s Rekognition is a video analysis system that promises to identify individuals in…
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Data scientists as the new Mad Men
Ken Auletta for The New Yorker looks at “math men” replacing the Mad…
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Data is, sometimes
Financial Times recently updated their style guide:
data — the rule for always…
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Every document copy stored on used digital photocopiers
CBS News picked up four used photocopiers and looked at the hard drives.…
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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,…