Alec Wilkinson, reporting for The New Yorker, profiled Thomas Hargrove, who is deep…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Serial-Killer detector
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Flawed hate crime data collection
Data can provide you with important information, but when the collection process is…
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800 pages of Tinder data
Judith Duportail, writing for the Guardian, requested her personal data from dating service…
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Uber got hacked and then paid the hackers $100k to not tell anyone
This is fine. Totally normal. Eric Newcomer reporting for Bloomberg:
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Facebook still allowed race exclusion for housing advertisers
Last year, ProPublica revealed that Facebook allowed housing advertisers to exclude races in…
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Google collected Android users’ location without permission
Keith Collins reporting for Quartz:
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Troubling pick for Census Bureau deputy director
The administration’s current pick for deputy director of the United States Census Bureau…
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Based on your morals, a debate with a computer to expose you to other points of view
Collective Debate from the MIT Media Lab gauges your moral compass with a…
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Changing internet markets for sex work
The internet changed how sex workers and clients find each other and how…
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AI-generated celebrity faces look real
Researchers from NVIDIA published work with artificial intelligence algorithms, or more specifically, generative…
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Data journalism lessons available from ProPublica Data Institute
ProPublica runs a small annual workshop to teach journalists a bit about data…
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Dangers of CSV injection
George Mauer highlights how a hacker might access other people’s data by putting…
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Machine learning demo with your webcam and GIFs
The Teachable Machine from Støj, Use All Five, and Google is a fun…
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Stack Overflow salary calculator for developers
Stack Overflow used data from their developer survey to build a prediction model…
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Looking for improbably frequent lottery winners
After hearing the story of reporter Lawrence Mower, who discovered fraudsters after a…
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LEGO color scheme classifications
Nathanael Aff poked at LEGO brickset data with some text mining methods in…
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xkcd: Ensemble model
That xkcd is such a joker. Munroe should start a comic.…
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Q&A with This is Statistics
I did a quick Q&A with This is Statistics recently. It’s an ongoing…
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Machine learning to find spy planes
Last year, BuzzFeed News went looking for surveillance flight paths from the FBI…
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Calculating the opposite of your job
Here’s a fun calculation from The Upshot.
The Labor Department keeps detailed and…