File another one under the sounds-good-on-paper-but-really-challenging-in-practice. Kashmir Hill, for The New York Times,…
Statistics
More than mean and standard deviation.
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To get your personal data, provide more personal data
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How police use facial recogntion
For The New York Times, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries looked at the current state of…
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Squirrel census count in Central Park
In 2018, there was a squirrel census count at Central Park in New…
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Misinterpreted or misleading fire maps
With all of the maps of fire in Australia, be sure to check…
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Scripts from The Office, the dataset
The decade is almost done. You’re sitting there and you’re thinking: “I wish…
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Analysis of online sermons
Pew Research Center analyzed online sermons in U.S. searches, taking a closer look…
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Deaths from child abuse, a starting dataset
By way of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, ProPublica and The…
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AI-generated pies
Janelle Shane applied her know-how with artificial intelligence to generate new types of…
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Looking for similar NBA games, based on win probability time series
Inpredictable, a sports analytics site by Michael Beuoy, tracks win probabilities of NBA…
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Sephora dataset is a collection of makeup reviews that mention crying
Interested in reviews on the Sephora website for waterproof makeup, Connie Ye figured…
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Data shelf life
Stephen M. Stigler argues that data have a limited shelf life. The abstract:…
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The Myth of ‘Dumbing Down’
For The Atlantic, Ian Bogost on communicating complex ideas to an audience:
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Study retracted after finding a mistaken recoding of the data
A study found that a hospital program significantly reduced the number of hospitalizations…
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FiveThirtyEight launches new NBA metric for predictions
FiveThirtyEight has been predicting NBA games for a few years now, based on…
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PG&E providing shapefiles, instead of a working map for shutoffs
Here in northern California, PG&E is shutting off power to thousands of households…
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The ‘impeach this’ map has some issues
Philip Bump explains why the “impeach this” map is a bit dubious:
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Statistical fallacies in the news
For UnHerd, Tom Chivers, talks about David Spiegelhalter’s new book and why every…
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AI-generated faces as stock photos
The Generated Photos project is a work in progress to provide realistic AI-generated…
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History of Tetris randomizers
Tetris is a game with foundations in randomness. Pieces are distributed randomly to…
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AI-generated voice used to fake phone call and steal money
Reporting for The Washington Post, Drew Harwell describes the case of the fake…
