Statistics

Frustrated with vehicles blocking bus and bike lanes, Alex Bell applied some statistical…

Michael W. Kearney implemented a classifier for Twitter bots. It’s called botornot:
Uses…

The Upshot has used a needle to show shifts in their live election…

Kofi Annan for Nature on the importance of data in ending poverty and…

Neural networks can feel like a black box, because, well, for most people…

I think it’s every statistician’s fantasy to crack open a lottery’s flaw using the numbers. No? Just me? Okay, whatever.

In a project he calls Sentence Space, Robin Sloan implemented a neural network…

False positives. Over-policing. Bias. This isn’t stuff you just mess around with.

Smart home. Smart city. They have a positive ring to it. But we assume everyone uses it only for good things.

A car moving at 70 miles per hour has to stop suddenly. Another…

Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…

If you’re looking for some data to play with, FiveThirtyEight just made it…

Odds are if you’re reading this, you know what statistics is already, but…

Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…

Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…

New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is…

Dan Hurley, reporting for The New York Times, describes the use of statistical…

FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…

Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially…

Alan Blinder and Michael Wines reporting for The New York Times:
A panel…