Statistics

Elizabeth Barber was in a long-distance relationship, and Strava was a way for…

Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian:
In at least one previous…

Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…

From 2010, Steve Jobs on data privacy:…

Emily Baumgaertner reporting for The New York Times:
But critics of the change…

Issie Lapowsky for Wired:
The change that’s already come to Pennsylvania may not…

Army ants function without a leader and yet accomplish very organized-looking things, such…

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…