With a surprise to nobody, Kyle Cheney for Politico:
Two members of Elon…
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More than mean, median, and mode.
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Justice Department says DOGE might have used Social Security data for political purposes
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Americans are paying for tariffs
For the Wall Street Journal, Tom Fairless reports on research from the Kiel…
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Names most likely to appear in the middle
What is the most middle name in the United States? Erin Davis grew…
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Losing American data
For Bloomberg, Molly Smith reports on the state of government data:
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Your interpretation of uncertainty language compared
Probability expressed as a percentage is a value between 0% and 100%. If…
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DOGE hiring and non-hiring data
In efforts to understand the hiring and firing at the beginning of the…
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College football happiness rankings
For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Artur Galocha, ranked college…
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Getting stuck in the mental health section of the TikTok algorithm
The Washington Post analyzed TikTok usage, finding what topics the algorithm nudges users…
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Zillow removed climate risk scores, because property-level modeling is not foolproof
When Zillow removed climate risk scores from property listings, many assumed the company…
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Database of mound charging in baseball
Jon Bois of Secret Base is working on a documentary that covers the…
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Non-profit takes over a canceled NOAA database
In May, NOAA’s disaster database was canceled because it is related to climate.…
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Decisions without data
For Bloomberg, Jarrell Dillard and Michael Sasso report on the effects of the…
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Statistics to find cheating sports gamblers
NBA basketball players, most notably Terry Rozier, were arrested for illegal sports betting.…
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Lack of data during the shutdown, globally
While the government shutdown pauses data about the United States, other countries feel…
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ICE planning a surveillance system that integrates more data streams and 24/7 monitoring
Dell Cameron, for Wired, on the system currently in its planning phase:
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LinkedIn sues company for fake bots
Suzanne Smalley reporting for The Record:
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Census data down
Due to the government shutdown, parts of the Census Bureau site, where you…
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Trust and transparency in government data
Speaking of the BLS, economist David Wessel joins Jonathan Schwabish on the PolicyViz…
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Fired BLS chief on how the day happened
Erika McEntarfer, the former chief for the Bureau of Labor Statistics made her…
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Real polling asks real people, unlike synthetic sampling
Synthetic sampling uses models to “survey” fake respondents. G. Elliott Morris and Verasight…







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