Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Data on net worth, income, and savings

Data Sources / Federal Reserve, income

Data for the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances, from the Federal Reserve Board,…
When Mike Breen announces “Bang!”

Data Sources / bang, basketball, Mike Breen

Mike Breen is a well-known NBA basketball announcer. When a player hits a…
Nobel Prize for research in global labor markets, using historical data

Statistics / Claudia Goldin, economics, gender, Nobel Prize, work

Claudia Goldin, an economist at Harvard, has won the Nobel Prize in Economics.…
News organizations blocking OpenAI

Data Sharing / news, OpenAI, scraping

Ben Welsh has a running list of the news organizations blocking OpenAI crawlers:…
Crows might understand probabilities

Statistics / Ars Technica, birds, probability

Researchers at the University of Tübingen are studying crows’ abilities to understand statistical…
Tattoos and impulsiveness dataset

Data Sources / tattoos

For their research on tattoos and choice, Bradley Ruffle and Anne Wilson provide…
Flawed Rotten Tomatoes ratings

Mistaken Data / bias, movies, ratings, Rotten Tomatoes, Vulture

Rotten Tomatoes aggregates movie reviews to spit out a freshness score for each…
Supermarket provides AI-driven meal planner and is disappointed by the internet using it to output weird recipes

Mistaken Data / AI, grocery, Guardian, recipes

A supermarket chain in New Zealand offered an AI-based recipe generator, and of…
Finding a troll’s identity

Data Sharing / privacy, TikTok, trolls

A troll kept leaving comments on a woman’s TikTok videos, so she figured…
Save recipes to your email

Data Sharing / Matthew Phillips, recipes

Yums, by Matthew Phillips, is a quick and simple way to save recipes…
Directory of date-me docs

Data Sharing / Date Me Doc, dating

Instead of using dating apps, some have turned to the date-me doc, which…
Honesty research likely faked data

Mistaken Data / fake data, honesty, Planet Money

Research by Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino suggested that people were more honest…
Manual data labeling behind the AI

Statistics / AI, Bloomberg, ethics, Google

One of the things that makes AI seem neat is that it sometimes…
Outsourced work and generative AI

Statistics / AI, generative, illustration, Rest of World, work

For Rest of World, Andrew Deck turned the AI focus on outsourced workers,…
Introduction to statistical learning, with Python examples

Statistics / book, learning, Python

An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R by Gareth James, Daniela…
Oddly specific ad profiles

Data Sharing / advertising, privacy, The Markup

Advertising funds a big chunk of the web, but for advertisers to continue…
Astericking NBA champions

Statistics / basketball, Pudding, Russell Samora

It seems to have grown more common for basketball fans to complain that…
Changes to Blackjack payouts so that gamblers lose more to casinos

Statistics / gambling, Las Vegas, probability

Katherine Sayre, for The Wall Street Journal, on Las Vegas casinos squeezing out…
Demonstrating how large language models work

Statistics / AI, language, model, Upshot

You might’ve heard about large language models lately. They’re the “brains” behind recent…
AI and the American smile

Statistics / AI, bias, images, midjourney

Jenka Gurfinkel discusses the appearance of the American smile in AI-generated images and…

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