Statistics

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…

Statistics professor Di Cook was one of the first people I ever talked…

Hearing about machine learning and algorithms a lot recently and not sure what…

For the past few months, Cards Against Humanity polled the American public to…

Statistician Kristian Lum described her experiences with harassment as a graduate student at…

Michael Wines, reporting for The New York Times:
“The politicization of the census…

Data for police shootings is usually the subset that only includes fatalities. Vice…

There’s another essay on Distill by Shan Carter and Michael Nielsen. They describe…

Alec Wilkinson, reporting for The New Yorker, profiled Thomas Hargrove, who is deep…

Data can provide you with important information, but when the collection process is…

Judith Duportail, writing for the Guardian, requested her personal data from dating service…

This is fine. Totally normal. Eric Newcomer reporting for Bloomberg:
Hackers stole the…

Last year, ProPublica revealed that Facebook allowed housing advertisers to exclude races in…

Keith Collins reporting for Quartz:
Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones have…