Statistics

Todd Schneider likes trivia, and he plays in an online league called LearnedLeague.…

You typically hear about data breaches in terms of number of records that…

We usually see Census data in aggregate. It comes in choropleth maps or…

CompStat is a program that started in the New York Police Department, and…

There’s been all sorts of weird stuff going on at Reddit lately, but…

By way of Chris Volinsky, a quiz dilemma for students who want extra…

Claire Cain Miller for the Upshot on when algorithms discriminate:
There is a…

Students want to get into a school, and schools want certain students. Match.…

From the Upshot, A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving. Play it.…

Technology continues to advance quickly, but the social questions are lagging a bit.…

As the Michael LaCour brouhaha settles into the archives of the Internet and…

I knew I had seen another automated video game thing before. Tom Murphy…

Seth Bling made a bot — MarI/O — that automatically learns how to…

Last year Tyler Vigen put together a fun project that found strong correlation…

Gertrude Weaver, 116 years old, was the oldest person in the world for…

Under the directive of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, started to release detailed…

On April 1, Reddit posted a simple button with a 60-second timer that…

The Washington Post has a straightforward calculator to figure out how much it…

Kevin Ferguson examined color usage in Western films from various angles. One of…

There is a realtime feed for the location of Los Angeles buses. It’s…