You can basically hook up an antennae to your laptop and start receiving…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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DIY satellite ground station to receive images from NOAA
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What YouTube recommendations look like for others
Watch enough YouTube, and you end up in a bubble of videos catered…
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Tracking what happens to police after use of force on protestors
You’ve probably seen the videos. ProPublica is tracking to see what happens after:…
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Tic-Tac-Toe the Hard Way is a podcast about the human decisions in building a machine learning system
From Google’s People + AI Research team, David Weinberger and Yannick Assogba build…
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Understanding Covid-19 statistics
For ProPublica, Caroline Chen, with graphics by Ash Ngu, provides a guide on…
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Hidden trackers on your phone
Sara Morrison for Recode:
Then there’s Cuebiq, which collected location data through its… -
Data on loans issued through the Paycheck Protection Program
The Paycheck Protection Program was established to provide aid to small businesses. It’s…
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Increased case counts not just from increased testing
Some attribute increased Covid-19 case counts to increased testing. While that is certainly…
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Cataloging all the house number styles
Dan Kois walked all of the blocks in his ZIP Code and collected…
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Algorithm leads to arrest of the wrong person
Even though there was supposedly a person in the decision-making process and a…
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Face depixelizer with machine learning, and some assumptions
In crime shows, they often have this amazing tool that turns a low-resolution,…
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Bad bar chart
Welcome to whose bar chart is it anyway: where the geometries are made…
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Failed CDC data pipeline
The New York Times reports on how the CDC struggled and failed on…
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What the federal government has been buying and where from
The Federal Procurement Data System tracks federal contracts of $10,000 or more. For…
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Based on poll, a lot of people think Bill Gates is plotting to inject a tracker via coronavirus vaccine?
A Yahoo News/YouGov poll recently showed this:
Only 40% of American adults are…
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Bad denominator
With coronavirus testing, many governments have used the percentage of tests that came…
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Florida data manager fired over transparency of Covid-19 data
Rebekah Jones, GIS manager for the Florida Department of Health, was fired a…
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Machine learning to make a dictionary of words that do not exist
Thomas Dimson trained a model to generate words that don’t exist in real…
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Comparing Covid-19 models
FiveThirtyEight compared six Covid-19 models for a sense of where we might be…
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Looking for generational gaps in music
Inspired by the genre of YouTube videos where younger people listen to older…
