Statistics

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.

Guess the Correlation is a straightforward game where you do just that, and…

Erik Bernhardsson downloaded 50,000 fonts and then threw them to the neural networks…

David Hagan looked closer at why the 11th of the month appeared to…

Kaggle just opened up a Datasets section to download and analyze public data.…

The Powerball FAQ was most likely written by a slightly annoyed statistician. You’d…

Keith Collins for Quartz ran some quick numbers for people who visited the…

The New York Public Library just made over 180,000 digital items in the…