Statistics

Jeff Leek, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…

I’ve been on a statistics-for-basketball spree as of late

Changing times and new ways to reach people

Learning how people play their games to provide more fun

By now, everyone’s heard of Moneyball. Applying statistics to baseball to build the…

From machine learning to data mining. From statistics to probability. A lot of…

Jer Thorp talks ethics in the data-as-new-oil metaphor:
[W]e need to change the…

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…