Statistics

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…

You can now wear a MagicBand when you enter Disneyland to get a…

Alexis Madrigal and Ian Bogost for The Atlantic reverse engineered the Netflix genre…

Luba Gloukhov of Revolution Analytics used k-means clustering to find groups of single…

Alex Reinhart, a PhD statistics student at Carnegie Mellon University, covers some of…

When you hear “piracy data” and “music” in the same sentence, it usually…

The relative interest in data scientist surpassed statistician this month. It was also…

Text can be a great source of data, but it can be a…