Statistics

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…

The Powerball Lottery is big news in the United States right now. The…

Forget about Shakespeare. Let’s look at a real classic: Love Actually. Somehow I…

There isn’t a complete government record for people killed by police, which is…

Suggestions. Not just snark.

Enter the real world of data and statistics, and you find that files…

Does your vote matter? Aaron Bycoffe and David Wasserman for FiveThirtyEight provide an…

In their annual survey that tests public perception against reality, Ipsos Mori asked…

Forget temperature and rain weather forecasts. I want to know when the sunset…

Metadata can tell you a lot, and most of us agree that it’s…

Why we should make a note but not freak out about it.

To introduce Convolutional Neural Networks, Andrej Karpathy looked at millions of selfies, left…

Predictions for how NBA players will contribute to their teams, based on their own performance and history.

In 2004, Annie Duke won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions,…