Statistics

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…

Statistics isn’t just for finding out how our world works and how companies…

Jonathan Stark, a mobile application consultant, is running an interesting social experiment with…

Kevin Slavin, chairman and co-founder of Area/Code, describes how algorithms (processing tons and…

Simon Rogers, for The Guardian, outlines the new, hot trend on the block…

It’s a given that some colleges and programs give more A’s than others,…

Data is everywhere, but use of data is not. So many of our…

Some people use a passcode on their iPhones simply to prevent their kids…

A little over a week ago, Sony was hit yet again with another…

The Pew Research churns out a lot of interesting results from a number…

The argument behind this graph in The Wall Street Journal is that the…

For the statistical nerd in you or for the child you are raising…

OkCupid adds another report to their growing list of analyses on relationships. This…

Researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden have found that the iPhone records cell…