Statistics

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…

Because using Tinder takes up oh so much time swiping, swiping, and swiping,…

The most recent episode of RadioLab is on social experimentation and social networks.…

The ghosts in Pac-Man have different personalities represented by their search technique. For…

Pew Research Center released a report that compares the public and scientists’ views…

A data-centric look at New England Patriots fumble rates at home made the…

Think big data, and it’s tough not to associate it with big corporations…

If you ever wondered what it looks like when QWOP-like figures learn to…