Statistics

Tips for Grad Students in Statistics. Oh, now they tell me.

In an article for Significance Magazine, economists Barry Reilly, Neil Rickman and Robert…

The newest episode of This American Life is on the game of Blackjack.…

MIT Technology Review profiles the Facebook Data Science Team, described as a gathering…

Many want to get rid of the American Community Survey, a Census program…

After noticing the Obama campaign was sending variations of an email to voters,…

Screw the sword swallowing and giant screen of moving bubbles. Just get Rosling…

Garbage in, garbage out the old adage goes. Nigel Hawkes, Director of Straight…

Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, on the Appropriations Bill:
The…

Princeton history graduate student Benjamin Schmidt explores changes in language through TV anachronisms.…

Jerzy Wieczorek, a statistician with the U.S. Census Bureau, explains why the American…

Last month Republicans were pushing a bill to get rid of the American…

Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a…

I’ve been reading papers on how people learn statistics (and thoughts on teaching…

Setting expectations in data science projects. Wide range of possibilities, set concrete goals

It was bound to happen at some point. Doctor and statistician Hans Rosling,…

Five and a half years ago, Netflix offered data and a $1 million…

George E.P. Box, a statistician known for his body of work in time…

After seeing his friend’s CoinStar receipt for 27 pounds of coins that equalled…

Other than ten-year population estimates, the United States Census Bureau annually collects information…