When you look for overall trends, you often poke around the data in…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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A visual explanation of Simpson’s Paradox
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Dialect quiz shows where others talk like you do
North Carolina State statistics graduate student Joshua Katz already mapped dialect across the…
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UK Census at risk
There is a possibility the UK Census is scrapped for cheaper options next…
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Data in the service of humanity
For this rainy Labor Day, here’s an uplifting talk by DataKind founder Jake…
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The inventor of modern probability
Andrei Kolmogorov is a name unfamiliar to most, but his work had lasting…
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A master’s degree in statistics is worthwhile
Statistician (and brand new PhD student) Jerzy Wieczorek explains the usefulness of a…
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Pickle Index for population estimation
As China moves forward with a plan to move 250 million people to…
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Why everyone is more popular than you
Mathematician Hannah Fry is back with another video. She explains why it seems…
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Google search suggestions by country
Google search suggestions have transformed into a never-ending source of entertainment and a…
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Behind the Netflix recommendation system
Wired has a fun Netflix interview on the behind-the-scenes work on the recommendation…
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An analysis after watching a year’s worth of SportsCenter
Patrick Burns for Deadspin watched 23,000 minutes of SportsCenter, keeping track of the…
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Data.gov revamp
After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…
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Datalandia, the fictional town saved by data
GE has a short video series on a fictional town called Datalandia where…
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A big collection of sites and services for accessing data
Andy Kirk put together a big collection of sites and services for accessing data. It’s essentially a big ol’ data dump.
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Predicting riots
Hannah Fry and her group at University College London investigate data from the…
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Statistics for Point Pattern Analysis in the Real World
Lillian Pierson provides a summary of methods to measure distance and clustering in a spatial context.
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Dictionary of Numbers extension adds context to numbers
We read and hear numbers in the news all the time, but it…
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Statistics jokes
There’s a fun CrossValidated thread on statistics jokes. Here’s the one with the…
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Beer recommendation system in R
Using data from Beer Advocate, in the form of 1.5 million reviews, yhat…
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Twitter trend detection algorithm
Stuff happens, and people tweet about it. Something major happens, and a lot…