The Mitt Romney campaign put this venn diagram up a few days ago,…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Mitt Romney pseudo-venn diagram, used incorrectly
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How long it takes to get pregnant
The odds of getting pregnant after a certain time trying are surprisingly hard…
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Synchronized Swimming in Data and the Water Metaphor
The flood. The avalanche. The tsunami. Drowning in data. For the past few…
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Analysis of chords used in popular songs
Hooktheory, a system for learning to write music, analyzed 1,300 popular songs for…
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Why robbing banks for a living is a bad idea
In an article for Significance Magazine, economists Barry Reilly, Neil Rickman and Robert…
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This American Life on Blackjack
The newest episode of This American Life is on the game of Blackjack.…
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Profile of the Facebook Data Science Team
MIT Technology Review profiles the Facebook Data Science Team, described as a gathering…
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Losing American Community Survey would be ‘disastrous’
Many want to get rid of the American Community Survey, a Census program…
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Reverse engineering targeted emails from 2012 Campaign
After noticing the Obama campaign was sending variations of an email to voters,…
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Hans Rosling one-minute TED talk
Screw the sword swallowing and giant screen of moving bubbles. Just get Rosling…
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Why are so many men pregnant?
Garbage in, garbage out the old adage goes. Nigel Hawkes, Director of Straight…
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A Future Without Key Social and Economic Statistics for the Country
Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, on the Appropriations Bill:
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TV anachronisms
Princeton history graduate student Benjamin Schmidt explores changes in language through TV anachronisms.…
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Why the American Community Survey is worth keeping
Jerzy Wieczorek, a statistician with the U.S. Census Bureau, explains why the American…
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House votes to cut the American Community Survey
Last month Republicans were pushing a bill to get rid of the American…
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CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012
Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a…
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Common statistical fallacies
I’ve been reading papers on how people learn statistics (and thoughts on teaching…
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Hans Rosling makes Time 100 Most Influential
It was bound to happen at some point. Doctor and statistician Hans Rosling,…
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Why $1m Netflix algorithm never went to production
Five and a half years ago, Netflix offered data and a $1 million…
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The Accidental Statistician
George E.P. Box, a statistician known for his body of work in time…