Statistics

Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford describes several myths of big data. Myth #4: It…

Easily scrape tweets and download them as a spreadsheet with ScraperWiki.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released billing data for more than…

After seeing a Reddit post on the convergence of Miss Korea faces, supposedly…

On R is My Friend, as a way to procrastinate on his own…

Path, a social networking app that lets you track and share personal information about yourself, settled with the FTC for $800k. They allegedly collected kids’ personal information without their parents’ consent. This is from February but important to know.

Jake Porway, the founder of DataKind, has a new show on the National…

What your zip code reveals about you. More on data brokers and how advertisers and businesses use your information to sell you stuff.

A prediction on the cost of a college degree in 2030. Interesting, although the model is simplistic, namely it assumes tuitions will never level off (if just for a little while) and when no one can afford tuition, there’s going to be more change. Plus the Internet is changing things.

Looking for a data scientist? Here’s what you should look for skills-wise.

Employee theft accounts for billions of dollars of lost merchandise per year, so…

Yelp is putting up over 200,000 reviews and offering ten $5,000 awards for students who want to make use of their data.

Deputy editor at Ars Technica Nate Anderson was curious if he could learn…

Math professor Jeff Bergen explains the odds of picking a perfect bracket.…

Do singer-songwriters age well like a fine wine, or does quality decline with…

John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats. Includes death locations, pump locations, the original map, and Ordinance Survey maps. This could be useful for a class or if you want to kick the tires on some mapping software.

At SXSW, Nate Silver discusses data bias and the strangeness of fame.

Jake Porway, executive director of DataKind on data hackathons and why they require…

Lois Beckett for ProPublica has a thorough piece on data brokers — companies…

Quandl is a search engine for time series data. Similar to DataMarket, but probably with more straightforward download.