Statistics

Glenn McDonald attempts to graph the musical space in its entirety on a…

FiveThirtyEight published their election forecast tracker this week, and it’s a beaut. It…

Hollywood has been talking gender equality in the movies more than usual lately,…

Dango is an Android app that predicts relevant emojis as you type. Xavier…

Even if there were a statistical model that predicted a mass shooter with…

Hilary and Roger touch on some interesting topics in the most recent Not…

Predictive policing seems to be playing a bigger role in court decisions these…

Taking over an old New York Times project, ProPublica re-launches Represent, which offers…

Online comments are an odd entity that can get out of hand quickly,…

Many people think of visualization as a plug-in tool that spits out something…

Robert O’Connell for the Atlantic ponders basketball analytics and the rise of Stephen…

“If an article includes our own calculations…then you should be able to see—and potentially criticize—how we did it.”

In 1999, the Department of Agriculture published a Natural Amenities Scale that took…

Noah Lorang, a data scientist at Basecamp, explains the key for most companies…

For my graphic on emergency room visits over time and the other on…

Numberphile, from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, is one my new favorite YouTube…

Crime and data have an old history together, but because there are new…

Back in 2008, the New York Times rolled out a campaign finance API…

There’s a lot of data on criminal justice — prison populations, crime rates,…

A big ol’ dataset on interaction with the list of news items on the homepage.