Most people probably wouldn’t think much about this poster that shows the values…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Unintentional Venn diagram suggests opposite meaning
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Not automatic
It’s an absolute myth that you can send an algorithm over raw data…
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Crisis Text Line releases trends and data
Crisis Text Line is a service that troubled teens can use to find…
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How charity: water uses data to do more good
Scott Harrison, the founder and CEO of charity: water, describes how the organization…
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Variance be damned
Daniel Colman won $15.3 million in the The Big One for One Drop…
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Geography.
By way of David Kennerr, something in this CNN frame seems off.…
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Markov Chains explained visually
Adding on to their series of graphics to explain statistical concepts, Victor Powell…
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Visual Microphone estimates sound from vibrations in objects
A group of researchers from MIT, Microsoft Research, and Adobe Research are experimenting…
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This is Statistics
Statistics has an image problem. To the general public, it’s old, out of…
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How well we don’t understand probability
All Things Considered on NPR ran a fine series on how we interpret…
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A more visual world data portal →
One of the most annoying parts of downloading data from large portals is…
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Large-ish data packages in R
If you’ve played around with R enough, there comes a time when you…
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Polling for stress →
NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health…
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Data science, big data, and statistics – all together now
Terry Speed, a emeritus professor in statistics at University of California at Berkeley,…
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Subpar Captain America
Animation Domination High-Def has a Captain America video of things that America is…
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Test your statistical wits about stuff in the world
Many of us aren’t aware of how one country compares to others or…
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Lessons from improperly anonymized taxi logs
Through a Freedom of Information request Chris Whong received and eventually released NYC…
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Data grab bag
— When you deal with data, you can think like a statistician, even…
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What a few thousand fake followers gets you
There are a lot of fake, spammy accounts on Twitter that come in…
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GDP rises in the UK after spending on illegal activities counted
The gross domestic product for the United Kingdom rose by 5% seemingly overnight,…