Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Scented candle reviews on Amazon and Covid-19

Statistics / Amazon, candles, coronavirus, Kate Petrova, smell

Prompted by a tweet about scented candles without smell and Covid-19, Kate Petrova…
Jobs of a data scientist

Statistics / data science, jobs, Roger Peng

Roger Peng outlines four main roles of a data scientist:
If you’re reading…
U.S. military buys location data from apps

Data Sharing / government, Joseph Cox, location, mobile, Motherboard, privacy

Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
Some app developers Motherboard spoke to were not…
Debunking claims of election rigging

Statistics / debunking, election, Kristian Lum

There’s a video (one of too many I am sure) going around that…
Student surveillance and online proctoring

Data Sharing / education, privacy, surveillance, testing, Washington Post

To combat cheating during online exams, many schools have utilized services that try…
Estimate your Covid-19 risk, given location and activities

Statistics / coronavirus, risk

The microCOVID Project provides a calculator that lets you put in where you…
Using the FiveThirtyEight model, see how the election odds shift with different scenarios

Statistics / election, FiveThirtyEight, simulation

With each model update, FiveThirtyEight runs 40,000 simulations, or what-ifs, to calculate the…
Tips for not letting polls and forecasts occupy your mind for two weeks

Statistics / election, FiveThirtyEight, forecast

For FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver provides tips to stay less stressed staring into the…
Making a convincing deepfake

Statistics / deepfake, MIT Technology Review, Richard Nixon

For MIT Technology Review, Karen Hao looks into the process of artists Francesca…
Excel spreadsheet limit leads to 16,000 Covid-19 cases left off daily count

Mistaken Data / coronavirus, Excel, limitations

Microsoft Excel is useful for many things, but it has its limitations (like…
Google search trends dataset for Covid-19 symptoms

Data Sources / Adam Pearce, coronavirus, Google, symptoms

Google released a search trends dataset earlier this month. Using this dataset, Adam…
Census undercount

Statistics / census, New York Times, undercount

For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek and Andrew Whitby on what might happen if…
Friends sitcom transcript dataset

Data Sources / Friends, R

For your analytical perusal, Emil Hvitfeldt provides ten seasons’ worth of scripts from…
Audit advanced data science course online

Statistics / course, data science, Jeff Leek, Johns Hopkins, Roger Peng

Jeff Leek and Roger Peng started their course Advanced Data Science at Johns…
Minimizing risk

Statistics / coronavirus, New York Times, risk

For NYT Opinion, Aaron E. Carroll on doing small things that sum to…
FDA commissioner corrects his misinterpretation of reduced mortality

Mistaken Data / absolute, coronavirus, FDA, relative

Talking about a possible plasma treatment for Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration…
Optimizing a peanut butter and banana sandwich

Statistics / deep learning, optimization, sandwich

How do you assemble a banana and peanut butter sandwich that maximizes the…
Inference of key shape from the sound it makes in the lock

Statistics / keys, security, unlock

Researchers from the National University of Singapore found a way to infer key…
Tracking who’s wearing masks correctly

Social Data Analysis / coronavirus, Los Angeles Times, mask

For The Los Angeles Times, Casey Miller went hyperlocal to track mask wearing…
Census counting during the pandemic

Statistics / census, coronavirus, imputation, New York Times

Reporting for The New York Times, Giovanni Russonello on the decennial census during…

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