Statistics

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…

The administration’s current pick for deputy director of the United States Census Bureau…

Collective Debate from the MIT Media Lab gauges your moral compass with a…

The internet changed how sex workers and clients find each other and how…

Researchers from NVIDIA published work with artificial intelligence algorithms, or more specifically, generative…

ProPublica runs a small annual workshop to teach journalists a bit about data…

Being good with data, sure. Then there are other things.

George Mauer highlights how a hacker might access other people’s data by putting…