Statistics

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…

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…