Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Building a happy life, interpreted through data

Statistics / Atlantic, happiness, podcast, uncertainty

How to Build a Happy Life from The Atlantic is a podcast on…
Decline of key changes in popular music

Statistics / Billboard, Chris Dalla Riva, keys, music, Tedium

Chris Dalla Riva analyzed key changes in songs that made the Billboard Hot…
Sleuthing for birth dates, with just TikTok profiles as clue

Data Sharing / notkahnjunior, privacy, TikTok

TikTok user notkahnjunior figures out people’s birth dates through the psuedo-privacy of the…
AI-based image generation ethics

Statistics / AI, Andy Baio, art, ethics, Hollie Mengert, Stable Diffusion

AI-based image generation is having a moment. Time some text and you can…
Educational statistics illustrations

Statistics / Allison Horst, humor, illustration, teaching

Allison Horst often illustrates data science concepts and tools with anthropomorphized shapes and…
Algorithmic rent increase

Statistics / algorithm, housing, ProPublica, rent

It’s growing more common for landlords to use software to set the rental…
Introduction to Data Science, an open source book

Statistics / book, data science, R, Rafael Irizarry

Introduction to Data Science, by Harvard biostatistics professor Rafael A. Irizarry, is an…
Impossible or improbable lottery results

Statistics / lottery, probability

There was a government-run lottery in the Philippines with a $4 million jackpot,…
Good Country Index

Statistics / index, world

The Good Country Index is an effort to highlight and rank the countries…
Design principles for data analysis

Statistics / analysis, principle

To teach, learn, and measure the process of analysis more concretely, Lucy D’Agostino…
Historical data

Mistaken Data / humor, xkcd

Randall Munroe provides another fine observation through xkcd.
I often wonder what our…
Data horror stories song

Statistics / humor, Rafael Moral

Rafael Moral sang a very nerdy data analyst song, to the tune of…
Border enforcement data collection

Data Sharing / government, privacy, Washington Post

Drew Harwell, for The Washington Post, reporting on a growing database and who…
Open cameras and AI to locate Instagram photos

Data Sharing / AI, Dries Depoorter, Instagram, privacy, surveillance

Dries Depoorter recorded video from open cameras for a week and scraped Instagram…
Images behind the generated images from Stable Diffusion

Data Sharing / AI, Andy Baio, Simon Willison, Stable Diffusion

People have been having fun with the text-to-image generators lately. Enter a description,…
Introduction to Probability for Data Science, a free book

Statistics / book, probability, Stanley Chan

Introduction to Probability for Data Science is a free-to-download book by Purdue statistics…
Incomplete crime data

Data Sharing / FBI, Marshall Project, report

When the FBI switched to a new data collection system, which relies on…
Google Maps incorrectly pointing people to crisis pregnancy centers

Mistaken Data / abortion, Bloomberg, Google, search

Davey Alba and Jack Gillum, for Bloomberg, found that Google Maps commonly points…
Where the data from your car flows

Data Sharing / car, privacy, The Markup

Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng, for The Markup, identified 37 companies that collect…
Looking for falsified images in Alzheimer’s study

Mistaken Data / Alzheimer’s, protein, science

Charles Piller, for Science, highlights the work of Matthew Schrag, who uses image…

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