One of the most annoying parts of downloading data from large portals is…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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A more visual world data portal →
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Large-ish data packages in R
If you’ve played around with R enough, there comes a time when you…
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Polling for stress →
NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health…
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Data science, big data, and statistics – all together now
Terry Speed, a emeritus professor in statistics at University of California at Berkeley,…
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Subpar Captain America
Animation Domination High-Def has a Captain America video of things that America is…
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Test your statistical wits about stuff in the world
Many of us aren’t aware of how one country compares to others or…
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Lessons from improperly anonymized taxi logs
Through a Freedom of Information request Chris Whong received and eventually released NYC…
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Data grab bag
— When you deal with data, you can think like a statistician, even…
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What a few thousand fake followers gets you
There are a lot of fake, spammy accounts on Twitter that come in…
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GDP rises in the UK after spending on illegal activities counted
The gross domestic product for the United Kingdom rose by 5% seemingly overnight,…
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What pregnant women want
In another take on the game of what Google suggests while searching, Seth…
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Strava Metro aims to help cities improve biking routes
Last month, Strava, which allows users to track their bike rides and runs,…
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Machine learning a cappella on overfitting
From the machine learning course on Udacity, an a cappella group sings a…
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A majority of your email in Gmail, even if you don’t use it
For reasons of autonomy, control, and privacy, Benjamin Mako Hill runs his own…
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Newborn false positives
Shutterfly sent promotional emails that congratulate new parents and encourage them to send…
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Random things that correlate
This is fun. Tyler Vigen wrote a program that attempts to automatically find…
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Type I and II errors simplified
“Type I” and “Type II” errors, names first given by Jerzy Neyman and…
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Naked Statistics
Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan promises a fun, non-boring introduction to statistics that…
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Most underrated films
Ben Moore was curious about overrated and underrated films.
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Hip hop vocabulary compared between artists
Matt Daniels compared rappers’ vocabularies to find out who knows the most words.…