Brian Brettschneider made a joke map randomly designating the favorite pies of certain…
Statistics
More than mean and standard deviation.
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Lessons from posting a fake map about pies
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Neural networks to generate music
Kyle McDonald describes some of the history and current research on using algorithms…
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The Crime Machine
I’m behind on my podcast listening (well, behind in everything tbh), but Reply…
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Finding a house to buy, using statistics
Atma Mani, a geospatial engineer for ESRI, imagined shopping for a house with…
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Cheap labor to power artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence, given its name, sounds like a computer learns everything its own.…
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Data Feminism
Data grows more intertwined with the everyday and more involved in important decisions.…
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Demographic effects on voting intention
The Economist built an election model that treats demographic variables like blocks that…
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High school statistics class builds election prediction model
High school seniors, in the Political Statistics class at Montgomery Blair High School…
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Education disparities
There are many racial disparities in education. ProPublica shows estimates for the gaps:…
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Optimized bubble tea consumption
When you drink bubble tea, ideally you’d like to finish with the same…
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Unreliable gun data from the CDC
FiveThirtyEight and The Trace investigate the uncertainty and accuracy of gun injury data…
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Chromebook Data Science
Getting into data science typically requires that you have access to a decent…
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The rise and plummet of the name Heather
Hey, no one told me that baby name analysis was back in fashion.…
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Changing size analogies and the trends of everyday things
When you try to describe the size of something but don’t have an…
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Waffle House index as a storm indicator
Waffle House activated their storm center in preparation for Hurricane Florence. Their restaurants…
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Algorithms to fix underrepresentation on Wikipedia
Wikipedia is human-edited, so naturally there are biases towards certain groups of people.…
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Live polling results for transparency and a way to learn about the process
In a collaboration with Siena College, The Upshot is showing live polling results.…
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Google Dataset Search now in public beta
Datasets are scattered across the web, tucked into cobwebbed corners where nobody can…
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Counting baseball cliches
Post-game sports interviews tend to sound similar. And when you do say something…
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Weighing the risk of moderate alcohol consumption
A research study on mortality and alcohol consumption is making the rounds. Its…
