Statistics

Nate Silver looks at past players who have scored 20 or more points,…

Data science has been covered at length during the past couple of years,…

You would think that something so concrete, carefully recorded by authorities, wouldn’t be…

I thought this riveting post on the New York Times Bits blog about…

Data is hot right now, so as you would expect, more people are…

Priceonomics takes the association of fixie bikes to hipsters, and creates the Fixie…

In working with tenants to help their city attorney convict a group of…

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,…