Statistics

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…

Because of course.

Dylan Selterman, a psychology lecturer at the University of Maryland, presents the above…

It’s not easy being unbiased. It just makes you biased.

Passwords are annoying, which is why so many people use passwords that are…

Science is hard. Statistics is hard. Proving cause and effect is hard.

There are a handful of ways to express laughter online, and it appears…

Elisa Long, a professor in Decisions, Operations, and Technology Management at the University…

Analytics continues its spread into the various facets of sports. Just recently, the…

When you first learn statistics, visualization, or any data-related subject, the data usually…

Pennsylvania is considering the use of risk assessment — the chances that someone…

Todd Schneider likes trivia, and he plays in an online league called LearnedLeague.…

You typically hear about data breaches in terms of number of records that…

We usually see Census data in aggregate. It comes in choropleth maps or…