Statistics

More than mean, median, and mode.

Increasing mortality baseline

Statistics / Atlantic, baseline, coronavirus, mortality

There was a time not that long ago when a hundred covid deaths…
World Bank’s Gender Data Portal

Data Sources / gender, World Bank

In an effort to make gender inequalities more obvious, World Bank updated their…
Inflation explained with eggs

Statistics / economics, eggs, inflation, Vox

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

Data Sharing / Media Manipulation Casebook, misinformation, Russia, social media, Ukraine

The Media Manipulation Casebook summarizes how bad-intentioned people take media from past events,…
Visual forensics to spot fake videos and photos

Data Sharing / accuracy, journalism, misinformation, Washington Post

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

Statistics / Jeffrey Rosenthal, questions, Wired

For Wired, stat professor Jeffrey Rosenthal answered statistics questions from Twitter, such as…
Crisis Text Line and data sharing

Statistics / Crisis Text Line, ethics, privacy

Crisis Text Line was sharing data with a for-profit business started by its…
Spotting spurious correlations in health news

Statistics / causation, correlation, health

When it comes to diet and health, you might see one day that…
Optimized Wordle solver

Statistics / game, Jonathan Olson, optimization, Wordle

In case you’re not so good with the words, but feel the social…
Joke machine learning projects to advance your career

Statistics / humor, Jess Peter, machine learning, Pudding

In an automated job climate that analyzes resumes and inspects social profiles, it…
Analysis of Facebook groups before January 6

Statistics / facebook, insurrection, machine learning, ProPublica, Washington Post

The Washington Post and ProPublica analyzed Facebook group posts that disputed election results:…
What the omicron numbers tell us and do not tell us

Statistics / coronavirus, NPR, omicron

May Louise Kelly for NPR spoke briefly with biostatistics professor Natalie Dean on…
Church of the 95% Confidence Interval

Statistics / church, humor

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

Statistics / privacy, Wired

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

Statistics / humor, xkcd

xkcd makes Statistics so fulfilling. George E. P. Box comes to mind.…
TikTok algorithms work because of a lot of data

Statistics / algorithm, New York Times, TikTok

Ben Smith for The New York Times got an internal document that outlines…
Family safety app sells location data to third parties

Data Sharing / Life360, privacy, The Markup

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

Statistics / birds, ranking, Washington Post

Using data from Project FeederWatch, which is a community tracking project to count…
Simpson’s Paradox in vaccination data

Mistaken Data / coronavirus, Simpson's Paradox, vaccination

This chart, made by someone who is against vaccinations, shows a higher mortality…
Calculating where you should live

Statistics / calculator, housing, live, New York Times

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

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