False positives. Over-policing. Bias. This isn’t stuff you just mess around with.
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Predictive policing algorithms used secretly in New Orleans
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Smart surveilled city
Smart home. Smart city. They have a positive ring to it. But we assume everyone uses it only for good things.
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Speeding increases energy in a crash proportional to the square
A car moving at 70 miles per hour has to stop suddenly. Another…
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The personal data you generate when you book a flight
Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…
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FiveThirtyEight datasets available for download
If you’re looking for some data to play with, FiveThirtyEight just made it…
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Statistics crash course
Odds are if you’re reading this, you know what statistics is already, but…
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Secret army bases seen in public fitness tracking map
Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…
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World population estimator and gridded data from NASA
Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…
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Data to identify Wikipedia rabbit holes
New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation:
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Statistical detection of potential child abuse cases
Dan Hurley, reporting for The New York Times, describes the use of statistical…
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When data is not quite what it seems
FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…
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When the interesting pattern ends up just being computer byproduct
Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially…
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Unconstitutional gerrymandering
Alan Blinder and Michael Wines reporting for The New York Times:
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Q&A with Di Cook
Statistics professor Di Cook was one of the first people I ever talked…
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How machines learn
Hearing about machine learning and algorithms a lot recently and not sure what…
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Cards Against Humanity’s public poll results
For the past few months, Cards Against Humanity polled the American public to…
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Harassment in the Statistics field
Statistician Kristian Lum described her experiences with harassment as a graduate student at…
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Worries over the 2020 Census
Michael Wines, reporting for The New York Times:
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Download comprehensive police shootings data
Data for police shootings is usually the subset that only includes fatalities. Vice…
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How artificial intelligence can augment our own
There’s another essay on Distill by Shan Carter and Michael Nielsen. They describe…