Statistics

With Google’s driverless cars now street legal in California, Florida, and Nevada, Gary…

R comes with a lot of datasets, some with the core distribution and…

I knew things were bad, but I didn’t know they were this bad.…

How Nate Silver won the election with Data Science. Statisticians won this round.

By way of Rafa Irizarry from Simply Statistics, a plot of Nate Silver’s…

Political analyst and statistician Nate Silver has gotten some flack lately for consistently…

The Los Angeles Times released nearly 5,000 records of allegations from the Boy…

How many people does it take for there to be a 50% chance…

I’m so glad there are people like Jake Porway in the world. The…

Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil give the rundown on what a data…

Nate Silver says the weatherman is not a moron.
Still, most people take…

Nancy Lublin, CEO of Do Something, gives a five-minute TED talk on the…

Randal Heeb convinced a New York City judge that poker isn’t a game…

Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, took an in-depth look at what…

Brian Ball and M. E. J. Newman analyzed friendship data from a high…

Fox News tried to show the change in the top tax rate if…

Data science: tools vs. craft. It takes more than a program to do something useful.

Carnegie Mellon statistics professor Cosma Shalizi considers the differences and similarities between statistics…

If you want to learn visualization, you should learn data. To learn data,…

Derek Thompson for The Atlantic on how retail uses our numeric biases to…