So the inauguration was on Friday, and there’s been some disagreement about how…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Counting large crowds
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Interview with Sesame Street’s Count von Count
Focusing on immigrant characters in television shows, The Guardian US’s data editor Mona…
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How Bayesian inference works
You might remember Bayes mentioned a few times in your introduction to statistics…
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Minimizing discrimination in machine learning
From Google Research, a look at how discrimination in machine learning can lead…
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Handwriting with a neural network
Continuing the neural network explorations, Shan Carter and team of Google Brain and…
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Google A.I. Experiments
In an effort to get people more interested in and to learn about…
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Newspaper endorsements since 1980
Noah Veltman put together a history of newspapers’ presidential endorsements since 1980 for…
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Sentiment analysis on Trump and Clinton faces during debate
For anyone who watched the presidential debates, I think it was fairly obvious…
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Using clustering to make a color scale
Choice of color scale can make a big difference in how the data…
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Seeking solace in data
I think many of us can relate to this during the odd election…
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How one man shifts national polls
I love the statistics lessons coming out of the Upshot, in the context…
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Deep fried data
Maciej Ceglowski, the creator of bookmarking site Pinboard, spoke at the Library of…
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An analysis of The Simpsons
The Simpsons is in its 27th season. That’s a lot of d’ohs. Todd…
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Trending #TrumpWon didn’t start in Russia
After the first presidential debate, #TrumpWon was a trending topic on Twitter, which…
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Traffic fatalities data for 2015 released
Each year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration releases data for traffic accidents…
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Skittle disconnect
This is what happens when there is a disconnect between data and what…
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Finding the wet princes of Bel Air
In case you didn’t know, there’s a drought here in California so there…
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Statistics lesson on polling
Nate Cohn for the Upshot provides a statistics lesson in the context of…
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Diversity percentages for US schools
Based on 2014 estimates from the U.S. Department of Education, the Chronicle of…
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Police surveillance in a digital world
Glenn Smith and Andrew Knapp for the Post and Courier investigate the current…