Statistics

Cory Doctorow from The Guardian writes about our inability to understand the statistics…

It’s a focused expertise, but statistcs can be applied to a broad range of fields that produce data.

The U.S. Census Bureau released their 2008 Statistical Abstract, the National Data Book,…

Popular Mechanics did a study on where it was safest to sit on…

To tell a complete and meaningful story, you need to have and provide all the context.

Patrick Ball, a human rights statistician, finds truth in numbers while analyzing and…

This video shows statistics centered around atheism, claiming that atheism is correlated with…

Rachel, one of the organizers of Columbia’s Life After Statistics, reflects on lessons…

This past Friday, Columbia University stat graduate students hosted a symposium on careers…

Chris Harrison put together a series of Internet maps that show how cities…

Wondering what statistics is for? This is what.
Data are a whole lot…

Statistics graduate students at Columbia University are hosting a symposium on careers for…

Dash, an Internet-connected GPS device, is going to change the way you drive…

I stumbled across this dataset covering piracy of Oscar-nominated films over the last…

For our Humanflows project, we used the United Nations Common Database for our…

I stumbled across a data table from the Social Security Administration that shows…

I don’t think I’ve seen a single Rambo all the way through nor…

For fun, I tried graphing Clemens’ past ERAs against the ERAs for the 16 most recent hall of fame pitchers.

What do others look for in the opposite sex? How do you measure up? Find the answers in this speed dating dataset.

There are two roles at Predictify — those who answer and those who ask — and you can do both.