Statistics

The administration tweeted a chart that shows the Senate Republican health care bill…

During the election last year, The New York Times ran an uncertainty dial…

Open Up: A Guide to Using Open Data to Combat Corruption is free…

I had the honor to deliver the commencement speech at the UCLA Statistics…

Thu-Huong Ha and Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz looked at the doodling dataset from…

This barista deserves a tip.

Jane Solomon collected tweets that used the gun emoji, and looked at what…

Statistics is a game of subtleties, and you lose when you don’t pay…

Roger Peng, a biostatistics professor at John Hopkins University, talks about the past…

The administration released a budget proposal yesterday, which as you’d expect contains some…

Summary statistics such as mean, median, and mode can only tell you so…

Yeah, but what if you combine and overlay all these datasets? [xkcd]…

Government data isn’t always the easiest to use with computers. Maybe it’s in…

Uber uses psychology and video game mechanics to encourage drivers to work longer…

Emily Beam highlights confirmation bias in articles recently suggesting that more millennial men…

Trevor Martin for FiveThirtyEight used latent semantic analysis to do math with subreddits,…

Looking for some data to play with? James P. Curley compiled Scrabble data…

Data is a great vehicle for arguments, but the (not just visual) perception…

Wendover Productions explains basic economics of airline classes. The passengers in first class…

Here’s a fun piece by Karl Sluis. He looked at eight demographic metrics,…