Because of course.
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Bayesian fantasy football 101
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Lessons from the Student’s Dilemma, the extra credit version of the Prisoner’s
Dylan Selterman, a psychology lecturer at the University of Maryland, presents the above…
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Bias from bias from bias
It’s not easy being unbiased. It just makes you biased.
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Predictable Android lock patterns
Passwords are annoying, which is why so many people use passwords that are…
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Lessons in statistical significance, uncertainty, and their role in science
Science is hard. Statistics is hard. Proving cause and effect is hard.
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Demographics of laughter on the web
There are a handful of ways to express laughter online, and it appears…
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The Price is Right winner and cancer survivor calculates the odds
Elisa Long, a professor in Decisions, Operations, and Technology Management at the University…
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Denver Broncos testing in-game analytics
Analytics continues its spread into the various facets of sports. Just recently, the…
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Data cleaning tips
When you first learn statistics, visualization, or any data-related subject, the data usually…
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Criminal sentencing and a stat lesson on probabilities and uncertainty
Pennsylvania is considering the use of risk assessment — the chances that someone…
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Gender prediction through trivia performance
Todd Schneider likes trivia, and he plays in an online league called LearnedLeague.…
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How stolen data affects you
You typically hear about data breaches in terms of number of records that…
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Twitter bot generates biographies via Census data
We usually see Census data in aggregate. It comes in choropleth maps or…
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Fudging the crime statistics and police misconduct
CompStat is a program that started in the New York Police Department, and…
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Download data for 1.7 billion Reddit comments
There’s been all sorts of weird stuff going on at Reddit lately, but…
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Student’s Dilemma, a riff of the Prisoner version with extra credit
By way of Chris Volinsky, a quiz dilemma for students who want extra…
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Discrimination algorithms
Claire Cain Miller for the Upshot on when algorithms discriminate:
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Placement matching algorithms
Students want to get into a school, and schools want certain students. Match.…
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Problem solving game teaches statistics lesson →
From the Upshot, A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving. Play it.…
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A surveillance system that watches over an entire city
Technology continues to advance quickly, but the social questions are lagging a bit.…