Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Disney MagicBands track your theme park activities

Statistics / Disney, MagicBand

You can now wear a MagicBand when you enter Disneyland to get a…
How Netflix creates movie micro-genres

Statistics / altgenre, Atlantic, netflix

Alexis Madrigal and Ian Bogost for The Atlantic reverse engineered the Netflix genre…
Clusters of single malt Scotch whiskies

Statistics / clustering, k-means, whiskey

Luba Gloukhov of Revolution Analytics used k-means clustering to find groups of single…
Statistics Done Wrong, a guide to common analysis mistakes

Statistics / analysis, book

Alex Reinhart, a PhD statistics student at Carnegie Mellon University, covers some of…
Iron Maiden uses piracy data for tour locations

Statistics / music, piracy

When you hear “piracy data” and “music” in the same sentence, it usually…
Data scientist surpasses statistician on Google Trends

Statistics / data science, trends

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

Statistics / language, machine learning

Text can be a great source of data, but it can be a…
Prediction of sexual orientation through Facebook friends

Statistics / facebook, privacy, sexual orientation

Carter Jernigan and Behram F.T. Mistree found that sexual orientation of an individual…
Up all night to get data, a music video parody

Statistics / humor, parody

Neuroscience students at the University of California, San Diego made a music video…
Global status tracker for open government data

Data Sharing / OKFN, open data

The Open Knowledge Foundation launched the Open Data Index, so you can see…
Cancer data for the U.S. released

Data Sources / cancer, health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their most recent cancer data…
U.S. Open Data Institute

Data Sharing / open data

With a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, Waldo Jaquith pushes forward with…
Monty Hall xkcd →

Statistics / humor, xkcd

Nice one, xkcd.…
Degrees of separation between athletes from different sports

Statistics / interactive, network, separation, Slate, sports

You’ve probably heard of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. The idea is…
Government data shutdown

Data Sources / government

When you go to the United States Census site, Data.gov, or similar government-run…
Consequences of big data exclusions

Statistics / big data, ethics

Big data, in all its glory, promises insights into the soul of humankind.…
Tracking criminal movements and predicting hot spots

Statistics / crime

In the latest SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Chaturapruek, et al. describe modeling…
A visual explanation of Simpson’s Paradox

Statistics / Simpson's Paradox

When you look for overall trends, you often poke around the data in…
Dialect quiz shows where others talk like you do

Statistics / quiz, vernacular

North Carolina State statistics graduate student Joshua Katz already mapped dialect across the…
UK Census at risk

Statistics / census

There is a possibility the UK Census is scrapped for cheaper options next…

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