There is a ton of election-related data pushed out every day, so much…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Election DataBot provides a feed of the interesting data stories
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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…
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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…