Statistics

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…

Lockheed Martin’s Space Fence, expected to be in initial operation in 2015, will…

Data is rarely in the format you want it. Dan Nguyen, for ProPublica,…

The Joy of Stats, hosted by Hans Rosling, is now viewable in its…

Why does it almost always seem like you’re in the slow line at…

I was going to post this graphic from Good when it came out,…

Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the Web, says analyzing data is the future…

You’ve probably already heard and read about Wikileaks’ Cablegate. If not, Andy Baio…