After the first presidential debate, #TrumpWon was a trending topic on Twitter, which…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Trending #TrumpWon didn’t start in Russia
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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…
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Election DataBot provides a feed of the interesting data stories
There is a ton of election-related data pushed out every day, so much…
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Sans human, Facebook’s Trending Topics algorithm faired poorly
Last week, Facebook announced that it was making the Trending Topics section more…
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Rhyming schemes in Hamilton the musical
Hamilton is unique in its use of complex rhyming lyrics. Joel Eastwood and…
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The different trends in American crime
Crime is up? Crime is down? It depends on who you ask and…
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Open data board game
Datopolis is a board game by Ellen Broad and Jeni Tennison from the…
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Why all the swimming ties in the Olympics
As the Olympics are all about reaching peak physical potential, it shouldn’t surprise…
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DrawMyData lets you plot points manually and then download the data
When you have graphs to draw or statistical concepts to teach, you need…
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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…