Statistics

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…

So the inauguration was on Friday, and there’s been some disagreement about how…

Focusing on immigrant characters in television shows, The Guardian US’s data editor Mona…

You might remember Bayes mentioned a few times in your introduction to statistics…

From Google Research, a look at how discrimination in machine learning can lead…

Continuing the neural network explorations, Shan Carter and team of Google Brain and…

In an effort to get people more interested in and to learn about…

Noah Veltman put together a history of newspapers’ presidential endorsements since 1980 for…

For anyone who watched the presidential debates, I think it was fairly obvious…

Choice of color scale can make a big difference in how the data…

I think many of us can relate to this during the odd election…

I love the statistics lessons coming out of the Upshot, in the context…

Maciej Ceglowski, the creator of bookmarking site Pinboard, spoke at the Library of…

The Simpsons is in its 27th season. That’s a lot of d’ohs. Todd…