Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

150-year-olds probably not receiving Social Security benefits

Mistaken Data / government, Social Security Administration, spending, Wired

The Department of Government Efficiency claims data in the Social Security Administration database…
Open letter from former Census Bureau director

Statistics / Census Bureau, government, Robert Santos

Robert Santos, who resigned last month, wrote a heartfelt open letter to Census…
DOGE wants access to IRS taxpayer data

Data Sharing / DOGE, government, IRS

For the Washington Post, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein report:
Under pressure from…
Value of government data

Data Sharing / government, Slate, takedown

While government data remains in limbo, for Slate, Lizzie O’Leary highlights the sectors…
Archiving effort to preserve Data.gov

Data Sharing / Data.gov, Library Innovation Lab, preservation

The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab is archiving Data.gov and making the…
Download CDC data through Internet Archive

Data Sharing / CDC, government, Internet Archive

The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was…
Geographic boundary data and microdata from Census Bureau is offline

Data Sharing / Census Bureau, government, takedown

As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide…
Health and climate data purge

Data Sharing / government, takedown, Verge

For The Verge, Justine Calma reports on the recent takedowns. Some groups have…
About 8,000 U.S. government pages taken down

Data Sharing / government, New York Times, takedown

The New York Times used a programmatic approach to estimate the number of…
Checklist for federal data backups

Data Sharing / backup, government, MIT

In preparation for days like this, MIT Libraries has a guide for making…
Preserving government data before it disappears completely

Data Sharing / government, preservation

Groups at universities and research labs are forming to preserve data. Naseem Miller…
Data.cdc.gov goes offline

Data Sharing / CDC, health

As of this evening on January 31, 2025, the data portal for the…
Census Bureau director resigns, 2025 edition

Statistics / Census Bureau, resignation, Robert Santos

The Census Bureau director Robert Santos announced his resignation on Thursday:
Santos —…
Extremely detailed 2024 election data, precinct level

Data Sources / election, New York Times, voting

As is tradition, The New York Times published a detailed map of presidential…
Convergence to sameness in the algorithm

Statistics / algorithm, creation, New York Times

As my father-in-law’s Facebook feed would suggest, the “algorithm” has a way of…
Seeing the single largest tree in the forest of 400 billion

Statistics / CTrees, Fabien Wagner, rainforest, tree

Fabien Wagner works with CTrees in an effort to map tree canopy height…
More time on the plane, but more flights arriving early

Statistics / airlines, schedule, Upshot

By just about every metric, flights are slower now than they were 30…
Probability does not exist

Statistics / David Spiegelhalter, probability, uncertainty

Probability itself is an expression of uncertainty, but the calculations behind the percentages…
Multiplication mistake leads to exaggerated plastic cautions

Mistaken Data / baseline, plastic, research

There was a brouhaha a couple months ago over research that suggested black…
Military location data that anyone can buy legally

Data Sharing / location, military, privacy, Wired

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and…

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