Statistics

Gabriel Rossman, a sociology professor at UCLA, describes colliders — or when correlation…

A few months ago BusinessWeek ran an article on how much people tip…

The Economist recounts the stories of statisticians who solved problems during wartime. Although…

If you logged into Facebook the past couple of weeks, you saw your…

You make and publish bits of data about yourself, intentionally and unintentionally, and…

When you have your phone’s Wi-Fi turned on, even if you’re not connected…

Sometimes you need data, any data, to test or mess around with. Sometimes…

People die, and for various reasons many bodies go unclaimed. In Los Angeles…

Here’s some weekend project data for you. Reddit user trexmatt dumped a dataset…

David Spiegelhalter, professor of public understanding of risk, does some back-of-the-napkin math to…

Ipsos MORI, primarily a marketing research group I think, released results of their…

Jeff Leek touches on concerns about point-and-click software to find the insights in…

As a way to bring context to the rarity of the 18-inning baseball…

In a nutshell, the traveling salesman problem is as follows: “Given a list…

We know that movies have changed over the decades. We’ve seen it in…

Recurring TED talker Hans Rosling returns with his son and Gapminder Foundation co-founder…

As a demonstration of efforts in estimating happiness from language, Hedonometer charts emotion…

Most people probably wouldn’t think much about this poster that shows the values…

It’s an absolute myth that you can send an algorithm over raw data…

Crisis Text Line is a service that troubled teens can use to find…