Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

NYT switches to CDC data for their Covid dashboard

Data Sharing / CDC, coronavirus, New York Times

After three years, The New York Times is switching away from local data…
Curiously timed stock trades by ultra-wealthy

Statistics / investments, IRS, ProPublica, wealth

Continuing an analysis of IRS records, Robert Faturechi and Ellis Simani for ProPublica…
NBA will track players with a third dimension

Statistics / basketball, ESPN, NBA, tracking

The NBA currently uses player-tracking that estimates player position on the court in…
Data warehouse at the supermarket

Data Sharing / Albertsons, grocery, Kroger, privacy, The Markup

Grocery stores with loyalty programs collect data on what and when you buy…
Guide for working with machine learning datasets

Data Sources / ethics, guide, machine learning, Sarah Ciston

As part of the Knowing Machines research project, A Critical Field Guide for…
Why modern popular songs have so many more writing credits

Statistics / Chris Dalla Riva, music, producers, Tedium

For Tedium, Chris Dalla Riva examined why the number of credited songwriters per…
Sources and attribution for AI-generated images

Statistics / AI, attribution, ethics, Stable Diffusion

AI-based image generation take bits and pieces from existing people-made images and tries…
Generating music from text

Statistics / Google, machine learning, music

Researchers at Google built a model that generates music based on brief text…
Manual removal of harmful text to train AI models

Statistics / AI, cleaning, ethics, OpenAI, Sama

AI training data comes from the internet, and as we know but maybe…
Bias in AI-generated images

Mistaken Data / AI, bias, images, Lensa, MIT Technology Review, Stable Diffusion

Lensa is an app that lets you retouch photos, and it recently added…
Generative AI trade-offs

Statistics / AI, ethics, generative art, Maggie Appleton

People have been having fun with generative AI lately. Enter a prompt and…
Stable Diffusion to generate spectrograms to convert to sounds

Statistics / AI, music, spectrogram, Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is an AI model that lets you enter text to generate…
Digital face aging with neural network

Statistics / age, Disney, face, neural network

Disney Research demonstrates their use of neural networks to seamlessly age and de-age…
Building a happy life, interpreted through data

Statistics / Atlantic, happiness, podcast, uncertainty

How to Build a Happy Life from The Atlantic is a podcast on…
Decline of key changes in popular music

Statistics / Billboard, Chris Dalla Riva, keys, music, Tedium

Chris Dalla Riva analyzed key changes in songs that made the Billboard Hot…
Sleuthing for birth dates, with just TikTok profiles as clue

Data Sharing / notkahnjunior, privacy, TikTok

TikTok user notkahnjunior figures out people’s birth dates through the psuedo-privacy of the…
AI-based image generation ethics

Statistics / AI, Andy Baio, art, ethics, Hollie Mengert, Stable Diffusion

AI-based image generation is having a moment. Time some text and you can…
Educational statistics illustrations

Statistics / Allison Horst, humor, illustration, teaching

Allison Horst often illustrates data science concepts and tools with anthropomorphized shapes and…
Algorithmic rent increase

Statistics / algorithm, housing, ProPublica, rent

It’s growing more common for landlords to use software to set the rental…
Introduction to Data Science, an open source book

Statistics / book, data science, R, Rafael Irizarry

Introduction to Data Science, by Harvard biostatistics professor Rafael A. Irizarry, is an…

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