Statistics

May Louise Kelly for NPR spoke briefly with biostatistics professor Natalie Dean on…

This is Hallgrímskirkja, a church in Reykjavík, Iceland. It will now also be…

Justin Sherman for Wired points out the farce that is anonymized data:
Data…

xkcd makes Statistics so fulfilling. George E. P. Box comes to mind.…

Ben Smith for The New York Times got an internal document that outlines…

Life360 is a service that lets families keep track of where members are…

Using data from Project FeederWatch, which is a community tracking project to count…

This chart, made by someone who is against vaccinations, shows a higher mortality…

Choosing a place to live is always full of trade-offs, but it’d be…

Statisticians David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters for The Guardian on reframing risk estimates:…

Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of…

If you’ve taken classes that cover image processing, you’ve likely come across the…

Mona Chalabi has a new podcast Am I Normal? and it’s very good:…

Tim Harford warns against bad data in science:
Some frauds seem comical. In…

Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people’s phones. Then that…

Derek Thompson for The Atlantic highlights recent research comparing mortality in America against…

How Humans Judge Machines is an academic publication covering the results of experiments…

For their 5 Levels series, Wired brought in Hilary Mason to explain machine…

After a lot of angst over the past few years around undercount, representation,…

The Wall Street Journal tested out the TikTok algorithm with bots to see…