Statistics

With tonight’s Mega Millions jackpot estimated at $1.28 billion, you might be wondering…

In 2012, Thomas Davenport and DJ Patil outlined a budding career choice called…

There’s a database of feathers called Featherbase, because of course there is:
Featherbase…

Given the current restrictions in the U.S., Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma…

An Introduction to Statistical Learning, by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and…

Wayne Oldford, a statistics professor at the University of Waterloo, explains risk in…

The Marshall Project and Axios report that the FBI changed their reporting system…

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…