It’s easy for anyone to grab a picture or video and claim that…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Visual forensics to spot fake videos and photos
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Statistician answers stat questions
For Wired, stat professor Jeffrey Rosenthal answered statistics questions from Twitter, such as…
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Crisis Text Line and data sharing
Crisis Text Line was sharing data with a for-profit business started by its…
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Spotting spurious correlations in health news
When it comes to diet and health, you might see one day that…
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Optimized Wordle solver
In case you’re not so good with the words, but feel the social…
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Joke machine learning projects to advance your career
In an automated job climate that analyzes resumes and inspects social profiles, it…
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Analysis of Facebook groups before January 6
The Washington Post and ProPublica analyzed Facebook group posts that disputed election results:…
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What the omicron numbers tell us and do not tell us
May Louise Kelly for NPR spoke briefly with biostatistics professor Natalie Dean on…
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Church of the 95% Confidence Interval
This is Hallgrímskirkja, a church in Reykjavík, Iceland. It will now also be…
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Anonymized data is rarely anonymous
Justin Sherman for Wired points out the farce that is anonymized data:
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xkcd: Unknowable truth
xkcd makes Statistics so fulfilling. George E. P. Box comes to mind.…
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TikTok algorithms work because of a lot of data
Ben Smith for The New York Times got an internal document that outlines…
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Family safety app sells location data to third parties
Life360 is a service that lets families keep track of where members are…
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Bird power rankings
Using data from Project FeederWatch, which is a community tracking project to count…
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Simpson’s Paradox in vaccination data
This chart, made by someone who is against vaccinations, shows a higher mortality…
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Calculating where you should live
Choosing a place to live is always full of trade-offs, but it’d be…
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Communicating effectiveness of boosters
Statisticians David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters for The Guardian on reframing risk estimates:…
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Optimizing retail spaces
Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of…
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Tracking the Lenna image
If you’ve taken classes that cover image processing, you’ve likely come across the…
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Are you statistically normal?
Mona Chalabi has a new podcast Am I Normal? and it’s very good:…
