Statistics

I usually don’t read much into job and degree rankings. The criteria are…

Last month, This American Life ran a story about research that asked if…

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

As in, you data me, I data you, and they data us. Jer…

Wyoming just passed a law that makes it illegal to collect data about…

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

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

A while back Alex Reinhart, a statistics instructor and PhD student at Carnegie…

Justin Wolfers, David Leonhardt, and Kevin Quealy for the Upshot explore the gender…

“This list of public data sources are collected and tidyed from blogs, answers, and user responses.”

In their continued efforts to present statistics as a field that doesn’t suck,…

We know there are a lot of deaths in Game of Thrones, but…

Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…

Data journalism is relatively new as a concept, but in practice it has…

The Elements of Data Analytic Style by John Hopkins biostatistics professor Jeff Leek…

Unlike traditional bracket-picking, the Upshot’s bracket game has a twist. You still want…

Mathematician Hannah Fry talks about love in terms of three “mathematically verifiable” tips:…

Sharif Corinaldi moved from New York to Berkeley for graduate school and was…

Parabon NanoLabs is working on a service that provides face estimates using DNA…

In football video game Madden, NFL players are scored based on skill, which…