Statistics

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…

Path, a social networking app that lets you track and share personal information about yourself, settled with the FTC for $800k. They allegedly collected kids’ personal information without their parents’ consent. This is from February but important to know.

Jake Porway, the founder of DataKind, has a new show on the National…

What your zip code reveals about you. More on data brokers and how advertisers and businesses use your information to sell you stuff.

A prediction on the cost of a college degree in 2030. Interesting, although the model is simplistic, namely it assumes tuitions will never level off (if just for a little while) and when no one can afford tuition, there’s going to be more change. Plus the Internet is changing things.

Looking for a data scientist? Here’s what you should look for skills-wise.

Employee theft accounts for billions of dollars of lost merchandise per year, so…

Yelp is putting up over 200,000 reviews and offering ten $5,000 awards for students who want to make use of their data.

Deputy editor at Ars Technica Nate Anderson was curious if he could learn…