Compared to a computer’s pseudo-random number generator, we are not good at picking…
Statistics
More than mean and standard deviation.
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A game to test your ability to pick random numbers
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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.…
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Spotting AI-generated faces
Computers can generate faces that look real. What a time to be alive.…
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Apps gather your location and then sell the data
The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps…
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When cycling is faster than driving
Deliveroo is a service that picks up and delivers food. Data from their…
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Cohort and age effects
I’m just gonna put this xkcd comic right here.…
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Reduced privacy risk in exchange for accuracy in the Census count
Mark Hansen for The Upshot describes the search for balance between individual privacy…
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Blockchain mapping
Shannon Mattern for The Atlantic on how blockchain might be useful in mapping…
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Lessons from posting a fake map about pies
Brian Brettschneider made a joke map randomly designating the favorite pies of certain…
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Neural networks to generate music
Kyle McDonald describes some of the history and current research on using algorithms…
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The Crime Machine
I’m behind on my podcast listening (well, behind in everything tbh), but Reply…
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Finding a house to buy, using statistics
Atma Mani, a geospatial engineer for ESRI, imagined shopping for a house with…
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Cheap labor to power artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence, given its name, sounds like a computer learns everything its own.…
