In another take on the game of what Google suggests while searching, Seth…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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What pregnant women want
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Strava Metro aims to help cities improve biking routes
Last month, Strava, which allows users to track their bike rides and runs,…
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Machine learning a cappella on overfitting
From the machine learning course on Udacity, an a cappella group sings a…
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A majority of your email in Gmail, even if you don’t use it
For reasons of autonomy, control, and privacy, Benjamin Mako Hill runs his own…
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Newborn false positives
Shutterfly sent promotional emails that congratulate new parents and encourage them to send…
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Random things that correlate
This is fun. Tyler Vigen wrote a program that attempts to automatically find…
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Type I and II errors simplified
“Type I” and “Type II” errors, names first given by Jerzy Neyman and…
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Naked Statistics
Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan promises a fun, non-boring introduction to statistics that…
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Most underrated films
Ben Moore was curious about overrated and underrated films.
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Hip hop vocabulary compared between artists
Matt Daniels compared rappers’ vocabularies to find out who knows the most words.…
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Hiding a pregnancy from advertisers
You probably remember how Target used purchase histories to predict pregnancies among their…
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A principal component analysis step-by-step
Sebastian Raschka offers a step-by-step tutorial for a principal component analysis in Python.…
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Analysis of Bob Ross paintings
As a lesson on conditional probability for himself, Walt Hickey watched 403 episodes…
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Porn views for red versus blue states
Pornhub continues their analysis of porn viewing demographics in their latest comparison of…
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Using Census survey data properly
The American Community Survey, an ongoing survey that the Census administers to millions…
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Bracket picks of the masses versus sports pundits
Stephen Pettigrew and Reuben Fischer-Baum, for Regressing, compared 11 million brackets on ESPN.com…
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Fox News bar chart gets it wrong
Because Fox News. See also this, this, and this. [Thanks, Meron]…
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Big data, same statistical challenges
Tim Harford for Financial Times on big data and how the same problems…
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Bike share data in New York, animated
Citi Bike, also known as NYC Bike Share, is releasing monthly data dumps…
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Dead links on the Million Dollar Homepage →
Remember the Million Dollar Homepage from 2005? It sold ad space to anyone…