Statistics

Summary statistics such as mean, median, and mode can only tell you so…

Yeah, but what if you combine and overlay all these datasets? [xkcd]…

Government data isn’t always the easiest to use with computers. Maybe it’s in…

Uber uses psychology and video game mechanics to encourage drivers to work longer…

Emily Beam highlights confirmation bias in articles recently suggesting that more millennial men…

Trevor Martin for FiveThirtyEight used latent semantic analysis to do math with subreddits,…

Looking for some data to play with? James P. Curley compiled Scrabble data…

Data is a great vehicle for arguments, but the (not just visual) perception…

Wendover Productions explains basic economics of airline classes. The passengers in first class…

Here’s a fun piece by Karl Sluis. He looked at eight demographic metrics,…

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.…

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Facebook logs data about you and how you use their application.…

Hans Rosling passed away this morning. The man. The legend.
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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…