Statistics

This is a story of fake charities and tax shelters. In an analysis of data from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), it was found that billions of dollars in donations were collected by fraudulent organizations, with only a tiny portion going to the actual causes. In one case, only $1 out of every $100 went to helping the homeless. The rest of the money went to a tax shelter. Shameful.

Along the same lines of Dolores Labs’ color experiment, Randall Munroe of xkcd…

Almost a year and a half ago, Infochimps, the data repository slash marketplace,…

Statisticians are mad and out for blood. Someone called R an epic fail…

In another step towards open data and all that jazz, the World Bank…

Anyone who’s looked at campaign finance data knows it can get messy really…

A recent study [pdf] by Sitaram Asur and Bernardo A. Huberman at HP…

IBM has been spreading the whole “smarter planet” spiel for a while now,…

Add another site to the list of places to find the data you…

If people put data on the Web – government data, scientific data, community…

There’s this article on CNN, from The Frisky, that has this little theory…

A good portion of my time in high school was spent trying to…

The online dating world can be a confusing place. How do you interact…

Back in May last year, the US government launched Data.gov as a statement…

David Spiegelhalter is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge…

Update: I had scheduled this post for next week, but apparently, Data.gov.uk launched…

This interactive by Las Vegas Sun describes how in the long run, you’re…

What? I don’t see anything wrong with it.…

Interaction designer Christian Swinehart takes a careful look at the popular Choose Your…

Are there any differences in student performance between schools with small classes (as…