Statistics

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,…

Many government organizations release microdata for surveys every year. It comes as anonymized…

“Normal America.” I’m not sure what that means anymore, but at some point…

When you search for datasets on The White House site, you get nothing.…

Facebook logs data about you and how you use their application. I know…

Hans Rosling passed away this morning. The man. The legend.…

BBC Radio 4 looks at algorithms in our everyday lives and why we…

Statistics took a hit this election season, and it could be a slow…