Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Cancer data for the U.S. released

Data Sources / cancer, health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their most recent cancer data…
U.S. Open Data Institute

Data Sharing / open data

With a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, Waldo Jaquith pushes forward with…
Monty Hall xkcd →

Statistics / humor, xkcd

Nice one, xkcd.…
Degrees of separation between athletes from different sports

Statistics / interactive, network, separation, Slate, sports

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

Data Sources / government

When you go to the United States Census site, Data.gov, or similar government-run…
Consequences of big data exclusions

Statistics / big data, ethics

Big data, in all its glory, promises insights into the soul of humankind.…
Tracking criminal movements and predicting hot spots

Statistics / crime

In the latest SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Chaturapruek, et al. describe modeling…
A visual explanation of Simpson’s Paradox

Statistics / Simpson's Paradox

When you look for overall trends, you often poke around the data in…
Dialect quiz shows where others talk like you do

Statistics / quiz, vernacular

North Carolina State statistics graduate student Joshua Katz already mapped dialect across the…
UK Census at risk

Statistics / census

There is a possibility the UK Census is scrapped for cheaper options next…
Data in the service of humanity

Statistics / Jake Porway, talk

For this rainy Labor Day, here’s an uplifting talk by DataKind founder Jake…
The inventor of modern probability

Statistics / Andrei Kolmogorov

Andrei Kolmogorov is a name unfamiliar to most, but his work had lasting…
A master’s degree in statistics is worthwhile

Statistics / education, graduate school

Statistician (and brand new PhD student) Jerzy Wieczorek explains the usefulness of a…
Pickle Index for population estimation

Statistics / China, population

As China moves forward with a plan to move 250 million people to…
Why everyone is more popular than you

Statistics / Hannah Fry

Mathematician Hannah Fry is back with another video. She explains why it seems…
Google search suggestions by country

Statistics / Google, suggestions

Google search suggestions have transformed into a never-ending source of entertainment and a…
Behind the Netflix recommendation system

Statistics / netflix, Wired

Wired has a fun Netflix interview on the behind-the-scenes work on the recommendation…
An analysis after watching a year’s worth of SportsCenter

Statistics / Deadspin, ESPN, sports

Patrick Burns for Deadspin watched 23,000 minutes of SportsCenter, keeping track of the…
Data.gov revamp

Data Sources / government

After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…
Datalandia, the fictional town saved by data

Statistics / GE

GE has a short video series on a fictional town called Datalandia where…

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