Statisticians David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters for The Guardian on reframing risk estimates:…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Communicating effectiveness of boosters
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Optimizing retail spaces
Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of…
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Tracking the Lenna image
If you’ve taken classes that cover image processing, you’ve likely come across the…
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Are you statistically normal?
Mona Chalabi has a new podcast Am I Normal? and it’s very good:…
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Scientists with bad data
Tim Harford warns against bad data in science:
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Your location for sale
Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people’s phones. Then that…
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Americans are dying too much
Derek Thompson for The Atlantic highlights recent research comparing mortality in America against…
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How Humans Judge Machines
How Humans Judge Machines is an academic publication covering the results of experiments…
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Machine learning explained at five difficulty levels
For their 5 Levels series, Wired brought in Hilary Mason to explain machine…
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More detailed data release from Census 2020
After a lot of angst over the past few years around undercount, representation,…
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Testing the TikTok algorithm
The Wall Street Journal tested out the TikTok algorithm with bots to see…
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An AI chatbot to talk to the dead
Joshua Barbeau fed an AI chatbot with old texts from his fiancee who…
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Introduction to Deep Learning
Sebastian Raschka made 170 videos on deep learning, and you can watch all…
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Introduction to Modern Statistics
Introduction to Modern Statistics by Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin is a free-to-download…
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Billionaire tax rates
ProPublica anonymously obtained billionaires’ tax returns. Combining the data with Forbes’ billionaire wealth…
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Money-in-politics nonprofits merge their datasets
Center for Responsive Politics and National Institute on Money in Politics are merging…
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A short film on giving up privacy, for better or worse
We know what you did during lockdown is a short fiction film by…
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‘Less than 10 percent’ outdoors
The CDC said that “less than 10 percent” of coronavirus cases were from…
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Converting Minecraft worlds to photorealistic ones using neural networks
Researchers from NVIDIA and Cornell University made GANcraft:
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When you don’t own your face
For The New York Times, Kashmir Hill describes the implications of facial recognition…