Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Statistics to weed out fraud

Statistics / fake data, fraud

As the Michael LaCour brouhaha settles into the archives of the Internet and…
Computer program learns to play classic Nintendo games

Statistics / algorithm, Mario, Nintendo, video games

I knew I had seen another automated video game thing before. Tom Murphy…
Automated Super Mario World gameplay through machine learning

Statistics / algorithm, machine learning, Mario, neural networks

Seth Bling made a bot — MarI/O — that automatically learns how to…
Spurious Correlations, the book

Statistics / book, humor

Last year Tyler Vigen put together a fun project that found strong correlation…
Oldest person in the world keeps dying

Statistics / death, FiveThirtyEight

Gertrude Weaver, 116 years old, was the oldest person in the world for…
Loans from Freddie and Fannie that defaulted after the bubble

Statistics / economics, loans, mortgage

Under the directive of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, started to release detailed…
Reddit button ends, and here’s the click data

Data Sources / button, Reddit

On April 1, Reddit posted a simple button with a 60-second timer that…
Cost to replace cable with streaming services, etc

Statistics / cable, cut the cord

The Washington Post has a straightforward calculator to figure out how much it…
A color analysis of Western films

Statistics / color, movies, Western

Kevin Ferguson examined color usage in Western films from various angles. One of…
Aggregate the Los Angeles realtime bus feed

Data Sources / bus, Los Angeles, transportation

There is a realtime feed for the location of Los Angeles buses. It’s…
Iowa liquor sales data, 3m rows

Data Sources / Iowa, liquor

Iowa released liquor sales data for weekly purchases at the store level.
This…
Counting people killed by police

Data Sources / deaths, Guardian, police

The US government doesn’t keep a complete record of fatal shootings by police,…
Science formally retracts LaCour paper

Mistaken Data / fake data, retraction

Last week, graduate student Michael J. LaCour was in the news for allegedly…
Statistics PhD ranked as best graduate degree

Statistics / PhD, rankings

I usually don’t read much into job and degree rankings. The criteria are…
Graduate student makes up data for fake findings

Mistaken Data / fake data, retraction

Last month, This American Life ran a story about research that asked if…
Time-lapse using photos online

Statistics / time-lapse

Think of time-lapse photography, and you imagine someone sets up a camera in…
Data as a verb

Statistics / grammar, verb

As in, you data me, I data you, and they data us. Jer…
Illegal to collect environmental data in Wyoming

Data Sharing / environment, law, Wyoming

Wyoming just passed a law that makes it illegal to collect data about…
Problems with algorithmic policy-making

Statistics / algorithm, policy

Virginia Eubanks for Slate describes the dangers of relying too heavily on black-boxed…
How to ask for datasets

Data Sources

There’s a lot of data readily available online. We know this. However, there’s…

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