Fatalities from Covid-19 range from the hundreds of thousands to the millions. Nobody…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Challenges of making a reliable Covid-19 model
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Coronavirus data at the state and county level, from The New York Times
Comprehensive national data on Covid-19 has been hard to come by through government…
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Johns Hopkins providing course on using epidemiology to understand the Covid-19 numbers
The numbers are fuzzy. You take them at face value, and you end…
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Poor comparison between two bar charts
A chart from Business Insider makes a poor attempt to compare the death…
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Communicating a crisis
David Spiegelhalter on communicating a crisis:
There are some basic principles, which I… -
Restaurant struggles
The restaurant industry is taking a big hit right now, as most people…
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Understanding data and statistics in the medical literature
Jeffrey Leek, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, and Elizabeth Matsui have a free/ pay-what-you-want book…
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Possible coronavirus deaths compared against other causes
Based on estimates from public health researcher James Lawler, The Upshot shows the…
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All data is wrong
Vicki Boykis riffing off the George Box quote, “All models are wrong, some…
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Dataset as worldview
Hannah Davis works with machine learning, which relies on an input dataset to…
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Testing Gmail’s tab choices on presidential candidates’ emails
For many, Gmail automatically categorizes incoming emails to the primary inbox, promotions, and…
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Federal budget scaled to per person dollars
For The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui scaled down the federal budget…
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Billionaire’s spending scaled to your net worth
We hear about billionaires spending millions of dollars on ads, acquisitions, etc. It…
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Data problems in Iowa caucus results
It wasn’t just issues with an app. There appears to be many more…
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Privacy algorithm could lead to Census undercount of small towns
To increase anonymity in the Census records, the bureau is testing an algorithm…
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Nationwide database of credibly accused Catholic clergy
For ProPublica, Ellis Simani and Ken Schwencke compiled an interactive database that you…
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Dataset for rejected license plate applications
Noah Veltman just posted a dataset of 23,463 personalized license plate applications that…
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Google Dataset Search moves out of beta
Over a year ago, Google released Dataset Search in public beta. The goal…
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To get your personal data, provide more personal data
File another one under the sounds-good-on-paper-but-really-challenging-in-practice. Kashmir Hill, for The New York Times,…
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How police use facial recogntion
For The New York Times, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries looked at the current state of…
