Statistics

Legos are the best toys ever invented. That’s indisputable fact. So it’s no…

Tarot cards don’t cut it anymore as a predictors. We turn to data…

Team lead, David Ferrucci, recalls the early days of putting together the team…

Jon Kleinberg, whose work influenced Google’s PageRank, is working on ranking something else.…

Carl Bialik, for The Wall Street Journal, reports on PSAs and the use…

Stop global warming. Decrease the National Science Foundation’s R&D budget. It’s so easy.…

Facebook logs and saves a lot of data about you and what you…

Charts and graphs are great, because they can let you see a pattern…

Testing the idea of six degrees of separation, first proposed by Frigyes Karinthy,…

There’s so much emphasis and attention on Black Friday, the day of sales…

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on significant digits and statisticians’ natural disbelief in numbers.…

Apple has a page dedicated to Steve Jobs that displays messages from friends,…

Cade Massey and Bob Tedeschi for The New York Times on the book,…

In a follow-up to their mood maps, Scott Golder and Michael Macy of…

We do not provide these tables in Excel or CSV format. You will…

Most of us have gone through the paces of algebra through calculus in…

Mostly because of the popularity of smartphones, location data is all the rage…

We read the story about the suffering of an individual, and we’re moved.…

Census data can provide valuable information, but the datasets are not always the…

Peter Curran for BBC Radio 4 puts the tribe of statisticians under the…