Statistics

Garbage in, garbage out the old adage goes. Nigel Hawkes, Director of Straight…

Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, on the Appropriations Bill:
The…

Princeton history graduate student Benjamin Schmidt explores changes in language through TV anachronisms.…

Jerzy Wieczorek, a statistician with the U.S. Census Bureau, explains why the American…

Last month Republicans were pushing a bill to get rid of the American…

Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a…

I’ve been reading papers on how people learn statistics (and thoughts on teaching…

Setting expectations in data science projects. Wide range of possibilities, set concrete goals

It was bound to happen at some point. Doctor and statistician Hans Rosling,…

Five and a half years ago, Netflix offered data and a $1 million…

George E.P. Box, a statistician known for his body of work in time…

After seeing his friend’s CoinStar receipt for 27 pounds of coins that equalled…

Other than ten-year population estimates, the United States Census Bureau annually collects information…

The 72-year mark has arrived, and the United States Census released individual records…

Whoa. What did I just read?
I think most of you know of…

From Gizmodo, this shows battery size in the new iPad versus that of…

Guardian asks actual data scientists what data science is. Recurring theme is a blending.

“Target doesn’t just know when you’re buying sheets. They know what you’re doing…

Is all this tracking and predicting getting out of hand?

In the 1980s, students and researchers at UCLA, led by marketing professor Alan…