Students want to get into a school, and schools want certain students. Match.…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Placement matching algorithms
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Problem solving game teaches statistics lesson →
From the Upshot, A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving. Play it.…
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A surveillance system that watches over an entire city
Technology continues to advance quickly, but the social questions are lagging a bit.…
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Statistics to weed out fraud
As the Michael LaCour brouhaha settles into the archives of the Internet and…
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Computer program learns to play classic Nintendo games
I knew I had seen another automated video game thing before. Tom Murphy…
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Automated Super Mario World gameplay through machine learning
Seth Bling made a bot — MarI/O — that automatically learns how to…
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Spurious Correlations, the book
Last year Tyler Vigen put together a fun project that found strong correlation…
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Oldest person in the world keeps dying
Gertrude Weaver, 116 years old, was the oldest person in the world for…
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Loans from Freddie and Fannie that defaulted after the bubble
Under the directive of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, started to release detailed…
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Reddit button ends, and here’s the click data
On April 1, Reddit posted a simple button with a 60-second timer that…
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Cost to replace cable with streaming services, etc
The Washington Post has a straightforward calculator to figure out how much it…
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A color analysis of Western films
Kevin Ferguson examined color usage in Western films from various angles. One of…
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Aggregate the Los Angeles realtime bus feed
There is a realtime feed for the location of Los Angeles buses. It’s…
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Iowa liquor sales data, 3m rows
Iowa released liquor sales data for weekly purchases at the store level.
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Counting people killed by police
The US government doesn’t keep a complete record of fatal shootings by police,…
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Science formally retracts LaCour paper
Last week, graduate student Michael J. LaCour was in the news for allegedly…
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Statistics PhD ranked as best graduate degree
I usually don’t read much into job and degree rankings. The criteria are…
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Graduate student makes up data for fake findings
Last month, This American Life ran a story about research that asked if…
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Time-lapse using photos online
Think of time-lapse photography, and you imagine someone sets up a camera in…
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Data as a verb
As in, you data me, I data you, and they data us. Jer…