Statistics

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,…

When the algorithms and methods for big data don’t work.

Download play-by-play and standings data scraped from the NFL site, dating as far back as 1920.

In 2014, five people died in New Orleans in a house fire. Three…

Trey Causey just finished an interview roundabout for data science jobs. He outlines…

With all of my frustrations with government sites, the education release feels pretty great.

Apps peak and die on a regular basis. One day everyone is giving…

I don’t know the full context of this discussion, but in the interview…