Statistics

The Los Angeles Times released nearly 5,000 records of allegations from the Boy…

How many people does it take for there to be a 50% chance…

I’m so glad there are people like Jake Porway in the world. The…

Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil give the rundown on what a data…

Nate Silver says the weatherman is not a moron.
Still, most people take…

Nancy Lublin, CEO of Do Something, gives a five-minute TED talk on the…

Randal Heeb convinced a New York City judge that poker isn’t a game…

Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, took an in-depth look at what…

Brian Ball and M. E. J. Newman analyzed friendship data from a high…

Fox News tried to show the change in the top tax rate if…

Data science: tools vs. craft. It takes more than a program to do something useful.

Carnegie Mellon statistics professor Cosma Shalizi considers the differences and similarities between statistics…

If you want to learn visualization, you should learn data. To learn data,…

Derek Thompson for The Atlantic on how retail uses our numeric biases to…

Kevin Drum on data is or data are:
Now, I know that lots…

Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, explored the geographic differences in language…

The Mitt Romney campaign put this venn diagram up a few days ago,…

The odds of getting pregnant after a certain time trying are surprisingly hard…

The flood. The avalanche. The tsunami. Drowning in data. For the past few…

Hooktheory, a system for learning to write music, analyzed 1,300 popular songs for…