Does your vote matter? Aaron Bycoffe and David Wasserman for FiveThirtyEight provide an…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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How various demographic groups can change the election result
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Numbers quiz tests how well you know your country
In their annual survey that tests public perception against reality, Ipsos Mori asked…
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Sunset quality forecasting
Forget temperature and rain weather forecasts. I want to know when the sunset…
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Metadata surveillance investigation
Metadata can tell you a lot, and most of us agree that it’s…
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Meat and cancer
Why we should make a note but not freak out about it.
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Neural Network for selfie analysis
To introduce Convolutional Neural Networks, Andrej Karpathy looked at millions of selfies, left…
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NBA player career projections
Predictions for how NBA players will contribute to their teams, based on their own performance and history.
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Using stereotypes as an advantage
In 2004, Annie Duke won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions,…
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What to do with small data →
When the algorithms and methods for big data don’t work.
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NFL play-by-play data →
Download play-by-play and standings data scraped from the NFL site, dating as far back as 1920.
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Predicting who needs a working fire alarm
In 2014, five people died in New Orleans in a house fire. Three…
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What interviewing for data science jobs is like
Trey Causey just finished an interview roundabout for data science jobs. He outlines…
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Detailed data release for U.S. college debt, graduation rate, and test scores
With all of my frustrations with government sites, the education release feels pretty great.
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Death of apps via tweets
Apps peak and die on a regular basis. One day everyone is giving…
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Focusing on the full picture with data
I don’t know the full context of this discussion, but in the interview…
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Bayesian fantasy football 101
Because of course.
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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.