Statistics

For this rainy Labor Day, here’s an uplifting talk by DataKind founder Jake…

Andrei Kolmogorov is a name unfamiliar to most, but his work had lasting…

Statistician (and brand new PhD student) Jerzy Wieczorek explains the usefulness of a…

As China moves forward with a plan to move 250 million people to…

Mathematician Hannah Fry is back with another video. She explains why it seems…

Google search suggestions have transformed into a never-ending source of entertainment and a…

Wired has a fun Netflix interview on the behind-the-scenes work on the recommendation…

Patrick Burns for Deadspin watched 23,000 minutes of SportsCenter, keeping track of the…

After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…

GE has a short video series on a fictional town called Datalandia where…

Andy Kirk put together a big collection of sites and services for accessing data. It’s essentially a big ol’ data dump.

Hannah Fry and her group at University College London investigate data from the…

Lillian Pierson provides a summary of methods to measure distance and clustering in a spatial context.

We read and hear numbers in the news all the time, but it…

There’s a fun CrossValidated thread on statistics jokes. Here’s the one with the…

Using data from Beer Advocate, in the form of 1.5 million reviews, yhat…

Stuff happens, and people tweet about it. Something major happens, and a lot…

As data grows cheaper and more easily accessible, the people who analyze it…

Curious about how people use “geek” and “nerd” to describe themselves and if…

Because every day is a good day to listen to Hans Rosling talk…