Statistics

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

When you go to the United States Census site, Data.gov, or similar government-run…

Big data, in all its glory, promises insights into the soul of humankind.…

In the latest SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Chaturapruek, et al. describe modeling…

When you look for overall trends, you often poke around the data in…

North Carolina State statistics graduate student Joshua Katz already mapped dialect across the…

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

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.