Statistics

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…

Over the past four years there was a 43 percent increase in prescriptions…

In a guest post for the guardian.co.uk Datablog, I thought out loud about…

Last week, there were rumblings over the end of the Statistical Abstract, and…

Not many people understand the importance of data privacy. They don’t get out…

“The problem isn’t that specialised companies lack the data they need, it’s that…

The Web is a game of pageviews, and outlets such as Twitter and…

Hot off the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Sean Gregory argues for more…