Statistics

There are a lot of fake, spammy accounts on Twitter that come in…

The gross domestic product for the United Kingdom rose by 5% seemingly overnight,…

In another take on the game of what Google suggests while searching, Seth…

Last month, Strava, which allows users to track their bike rides and runs,…

From the machine learning course on Udacity, an a cappella group sings a…

For reasons of autonomy, control, and privacy, Benjamin Mako Hill runs his own…

Shutterfly sent promotional emails that congratulate new parents and encourage them to send…

This is fun. Tyler Vigen wrote a program that attempts to automatically find…

“Type I” and “Type II” errors, names first given by Jerzy Neyman and…

Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan promises a fun, non-boring introduction to statistics that…

Ben Moore was curious about overrated and underrated films.
“Overrated” and “underrated” are…

Matt Daniels compared rappers’ vocabularies to find out who knows the most words.…

You probably remember how Target used purchase histories to predict pregnancies among their…

Sebastian Raschka offers a step-by-step tutorial for a principal component analysis in Python.…

As a lesson on conditional probability for himself, Walt Hickey watched 403 episodes…

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…