Statistics

By just about every metric, flights are slower now than they were 30…

Probability itself is an expression of uncertainty, but the calculations behind the percentages…

There was a brouhaha a couple months ago over research that suggested black…

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and…

For Bloomberg, Jeannette Neumann describes the accounting error:
For years, Macy’s Inc. touted…

Our World in Data is a hub for research and reliable data to…

Foursquare, which I thought was still a location sharing app but is a…

To demonstrate how easy and cheap it is to access the Bluesky firehose,…

For BBC, Zoe Kleinman reports:
Not so long ago, 23andMe was in the…

You’re probably going to see election forecasts more this month, and one candidate…

For The New Yorker, Jay Caspian Kang relates the election’s unwavering randomness to…

For The Guardian, statistician David Spiegelhalter describes three kinds of luck:

Circumstantial luck…

Jed Kolko, the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs of the…

The Data Provenance Initiative audited 14,000 web domains to see how sites currently…

Speaking of the Olympics, Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers talked about the warm-blooded…

Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…

It continues to grow more difficult for federal statistical agencies to accurately measure…

It’s impossible to know the exact number of Covid deaths worldwide, because consistent…

Christopher Wolfram explains his “unnecessarily detailed analysis” of the spelling game from the…

Neven Mrgan describes what it was like to get an AI-generated email from…