Gabriel Rossman, a sociology professor at UCLA, describes colliders — or when correlation…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Fake correlation
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$5.2 million in extra cab tips, found in public data
A few months ago BusinessWeek ran an article on how much people tip…
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Statisticians in World War II
The Economist recounts the stories of statisticians who solved problems during wartime. Although…
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Inadvertent algorithmic cruelty
If you logged into Facebook the past couple of weeks, you saw your…
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When data gets creepy
You make and publish bits of data about yourself, intentionally and unintentionally, and…
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Revealing location history via your phone’s Wi-Fi
When you have your phone’s Wi-Fi turned on, even if you’re not connected…
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A collection of small datasets
Sometimes you need data, any data, to test or mess around with. Sometimes…
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Unclaimed remains
People die, and for various reasons many bodies go unclaimed. In Los Angeles…
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Jeopardy! clues data
Here’s some weekend project data for you. Reddit user trexmatt dumped a dataset…
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Prostitution, GDP, and £1.7 billion due
David Spiegelhalter, professor of public understanding of risk, does some back-of-the-napkin math to…
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Statistically ignorant
Ipsos MORI, primarily a marketing research group I think, released results of their…
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Fallacy of point-and-click analysis
Jeff Leek touches on concerns about point-and-click software to find the insights in…
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Deviations from the mean
As a way to bring context to the rarity of the 18-inning baseball…
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A simulation of the traveling salesman problem
In a nutshell, the traveling salesman problem is as follows: “Given a list…
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Evolution of movies
We know that movies have changed over the decades. We’ve seen it in…
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How to be not ignorant about the world
Recurring TED talker Hans Rosling returns with his son and Gapminder Foundation co-founder…
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Emotional dynamics of literary classics
As a demonstration of efforts in estimating happiness from language, Hedonometer charts emotion…
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Unintentional Venn diagram suggests opposite meaning
Most people probably wouldn’t think much about this poster that shows the values…
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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…