Statistics

When it comes to robots and love, the concept typically deteriorates to subservient…

Janelle Shane, who likes to play with output from neural networks, teamed up…

Neural networks have shown usefulness with a number of things, but here is…

Hans Rosling was able to build excitement around data like no other. Truth…

This comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal speaks to me.

You can quantify…

Rafael Irizarry introduces the dslabs package for real-life datasets to teach data science:…

This is a fun drawing experiment in R by Antonio Sánchez Chinchón. A…

There are many ways to estimate how similar two cities are — weather,…

Elizabeth Barber was in a long-distance relationship, and Strava was a way for…

Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian:
In at least one previous…

Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…

From 2010, Steve Jobs on data privacy:…

Emily Baumgaertner reporting for The New York Times:
But critics of the change…

Issie Lapowsky for Wired:
The change that’s already come to Pennsylvania may not…

Army ants function without a leader and yet accomplish very organized-looking things, such…

Frustrated with vehicles blocking bus and bike lanes, Alex Bell applied some statistical…

Michael W. Kearney implemented a classifier for Twitter bots. It’s called botornot:
Uses…

The Upshot has used a needle to show shifts in their live election…

Kofi Annan for Nature on the importance of data in ending poverty and…

Neural networks can feel like a black box, because, well, for most people…