When you have graphs to draw or statistical concepts to teach, you need…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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DrawMyData lets you plot points manually and then download the data
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Trump tweets from Android are angrier than from iPhone
Sometimes I check Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, as many find themselves doing and…
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Building a generator for stuff
There comes a time in every data scientist’s life when an idea for…
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Searchable campaign finance data from the FEC
Every four years, campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission peeks its…
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Guide to spotting data BS
As we delve deeper into election season, politicians will spit out more and…
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Charting all the Pokemon
Pokemon is everywhere these days. I think it’s just something the world really…
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Sketchy summary statistics
Ben Orlin of Math With Bad Drawings explains the pitfalls of using summary…
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Graphing all the music
Glenn McDonald attempts to graph the musical space in its entirety on a…
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Election forecast tracker
FiveThirtyEight published their election forecast tracker this week, and it’s a beaut. It…
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Gender equality in the movies, a screenplay analysis
Hollywood has been talking gender equality in the movies more than usual lately,…
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Emoji semantic space
Dango is an Android app that predicts relevant emojis as you type. Xavier…
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Nearly impossible to predict mass shootings with current data
Even if there were a statistical model that predicted a mass shooter with…
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Automatic versus manual data analysis
Hilary and Roger touch on some interesting topics in the most recent Not…
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Bias built in to crime prediction
Predictive policing seems to be playing a bigger role in court decisions these…
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Track what your government representatives are doing for you
Taking over an old New York Times project, ProPublica re-launches Represent, which offers…
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The Guardian analyzes 70m comments, unearthing online abuse
Online comments are an odd entity that can get out of hand quickly,…
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Treating visualization as a process
Many people think of visualization as a plug-in tool that spits out something…
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Stephen Curry statistical dominance
Robert O’Connell for the Atlantic ponders basketball analytics and the rise of Stephen…
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Moving to the “worst” place in America
In 1999, the Department of Agriculture published a Natural Amenities Scale that took…
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Data scientists mostly just do arithmetic
Noah Lorang, a data scientist at Basecamp, explains the key for most companies…