Monica Ramirez tried her hand with modeling deaths on Game of Thrones and…
Statistics
More than mean and standard deviation.
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Game of Thrones death predictor
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Playing the odds for record-breaking Jeopardy! wins
James Holzhauer is the new hotness on Jeopardy! with Daily Double hunting, big…
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When bad data leads to a disappearing neighborhood
Caitlin Dewey for OneZero describes the case of the Fruit Belt neighborhood in…
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Does the first to 100 points usually win in the NBA?
Los Angeles Clippers commentator Ralph Lawler has a saying: “First to 100 wins.…
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Explore generative models and latent space with a simple spreadsheet interface
Generative models can seem like a magic box where you plug in observed…
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Exploring data to form better questions
Feeding off the words of John Tukey, Roger Peng proposes a search for…
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Facial recognition machine for $60
For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy on privacy and how easy it…
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FiveThirtyEight evaluates their forecasts
FiveThirtyEight uses forecasts to attach probabilities to politics and sports, and they get…
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Finding context for the data
Context makes data useful. Without it, it’s easy to get lost in numbers…
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Census data downloader to reformat for humans
There is a lot of Census data. You can grab most of the…
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Data for 200M traffic stop records
The Stanford Open Policing Project just released a dataset for police traffic stops…
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A game to test your ability to pick random numbers
Compared to a computer’s pseudo-random number generator, we are not good at picking…
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Case of the 500-mile email
Trey Harris, a previous tech administrator for a university, tells the story of…
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Probability you will break up with your partner
Rosenfeld, et al. from Stanford University ran a survey in 2009 for a…
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Data-driven porn
Gustavo Turner for Logic on his experiences covering the porn industry and the…
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Looking for common misspellings
Some words are harder to spell than others, and on the internet, sometimes…
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When geolocation makes everyone think you stole their phone
People show up unannounced at John and his mother Ann’s home in South…
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No such thing as raw data
Nick Barrowman on the myth of raw data:
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Fake internet
Max Read for New York Magazine describes the fake-ness of internet through the…
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Following your gut, following the data
The Wall Street Journal highlighted a disagreement between data and business at Netflix.…
