Statistics

Pornhub continues their analysis of porn viewing demographics in their latest comparison of…

The American Community Survey, an ongoing survey that the Census administers to millions…

Stephen Pettigrew and Reuben Fischer-Baum, for Regressing, compared 11 million brackets on ESPN.com…

Because Fox News. See also this, this, and this. [Thanks, Meron]…

Tim Harford for Financial Times on big data and how the same problems…

Citi Bike, also known as NYC Bike Share, is releasing monthly data dumps…

Remember the Million Dollar Homepage from 2005? It sold ad space to anyone…

After he noticed gambling odds fluctuate wildly at the end of a football…

The Atlantic interviewed Dr. Demetrios Matsakis, Chief Scientist for Time Services at the…

Tony Haile discusses how we read and share online, based on actual data.…

There’s plenty of software to muck around with data, but to gain the…

Forget bell curves, jellybeans, and coin flips to explain statistical concepts. Dancing Statistics…

One of the main challenges of any data project is getting the data.…

I like how a little bit of game theory has crept into Jeopardy!…

Victor Powell, who has visualized the Central Limit Theorem and Simpson’s Paradox, most…

Kirk Goldsberry talks the rise of analytics usage in the NBA. With cameras…

Remember that TED talk from a couple of years ago on texting patterns…

Statistician John Chambers, the creator of S and a core member of R,…

Researchers at Princeton released a study that said that Facebook was on the…

Remember when Amy Webb created a bunch of fake male profiles to scrape…