Statistics

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…

We learned the strategy to win Rock-Paper-Scissors every time, but does it really…

The government has been making a big push for more open health-related data,…

William Briggs and John Briggs examine the differences between movies that have won…

Need music data? Get all the data you want and more from the…

Sunlight Labs continues its work for a more open government with its recent…

There’s something very strange about the anonymity of the Web that brings out…

Sudhir Venkatesh, a professor of sociology at Columbia University, along with his students,…

OkCupid continues their analysis on the mysteries of the dating world, this time…

Statisticians everywhere are squealing in delight over this story on fellow statistician Mohan…

Apparently moods on Twitter can be used to predict the ups and downs…

Christopher Beam for Slate explains research being done at UCLA in collaboration with…

Add another online destination to find the data that you need. DataMarket launched…

President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address yesterday, and this…