Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the most recent unemployment numbers last week.…

FlowingData readers who have been around for a while will remember I made…

It’s exciting times for data heads. The launch of Data.gov back in May…

There’s a lot of data on the Web, but it’s all very scattered.…

Online dating can be tricky. What do you say? How do you reply…

Picking a cell phone plan is confusing, but it doesn’t have to be.…

What if you were a good student but knew you weren’t going to…

We all know this already, but it’s nice to get some backing from…

Taking another step towards data transparency, the US government provides the IT dashboard…

While we’re on the subject of flight, ever since that plane landed in…

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) makes a lot of world…

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Undoubtedly you’ve been seeing a lot of headlines about…

Check out my guest post on The Guardian’s Data Blog on the current…

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I threw out a random thought a couple of months…

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As we’ve all read by now, Google’s chief economist Hal…

This graphic on the history and future of information has been making the…

Big news. Data.gov is now live. Government data is at your fingertips.
The…

You might not know it, but there are actually a ton of data…

Google announced today that they have made a small subset of public datasets…