Statistics

Hannah Fry works with statistics and risk, but her perspective changed when she…

Matthew Crump, a psychology professor who discovered high volume cheating in his class…

The Open-Source Psychometrics Project, which seems to have been around for a while,…

There’s a subreddit where people share a story and ask if they’re the…

Lorenzo Franceschi reporting for Motherboard on a leaked Facebook document:
“We do not…

Crystal Owens, Max Fan, John Hart, and Gareth McKinley from Massachusetts Institute of…

Sam Biddle and Jack Poulson for The Intercept reporting on Anomaly Six, a…

Sentiment analysis can be fun to apply to varying types of text, but…

Zack Capozzi, for USA Lacrosse Magazine, explains how he calculates win probabilities pre-game…

For TechCrunch, Zack Whittaker reporting:
In its second ruling on Monday, the Ninth…

Taxes are due today in the U.S. (yay). Geoffrey A. Fowler for The…

For Nature, Lynne Peeples spoke to the people behind many of the popular…

For privacy reasons, there’s a 72-year restriction on individual Census records, which include…

There was a time not that long ago when a hundred covid deaths…

In an effort to make gender inequalities more obvious, World Bank updated their…

The prices of everything seem to be rising a lot lately. Why? For…

The Media Manipulation Casebook summarizes how bad-intentioned people take media from past events,…

It’s easy for anyone to grab a picture or video and claim that…

For Wired, stat professor Jeffrey Rosenthal answered statistics questions from Twitter, such as…

Crisis Text Line was sharing data with a for-profit business started by its…