Statistics

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…

Iowa released liquor sales data for weekly purchases at the store level.
This…

The US government doesn’t keep a complete record of fatal shootings by police,…

Last week, graduate student Michael J. LaCour was in the news for allegedly…

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…