Atlantic

Building a happy life, interpreted through data

Statistics / Atlantic, happiness, podcast, uncertainty

How to Build a Happy Life from The Atlantic is a podcast on…
Luxury surveillance

Self-surveillance / Amazon, Atlantic, Chris Gilliard, privacy

Chris Gilliard, for The Atlantic, describes self-surveillance that people pay for in exchange…
Increasing mortality baseline

Statistics / Atlantic, baseline, coronavirus, mortality

There was a time not that long ago when a hundred covid deaths…
Americans are dying too much

Statistics / Atlantic, Derek Thompson, mortality

Derek Thompson for The Atlantic highlights recent research comparing mortality in America against…
Not so likely life of The Simpsons

Statistics / Atlantic, median, money, The Simpsons, work

For The Atlantic, Dani Alexis Ryskamp compares the financials of The Simpsons against…
Bad denominator

Mistaken Data / Atlantic, CDC, coronavirus, denominator, testing

With coronavirus testing, many governments have used the percentage of tests that came…
Rise of data art

Data Art / Atlantic, rise

Data art is on the rise. Jacoba Urist for the Atlantic gets into…
Where time comes from

Statistics / Atlantic, time

The Atlantic interviewed Dr. Demetrios Matsakis, Chief Scientist for Time Services at the…
How Netflix creates movie micro-genres

Statistics / altgenre, Atlantic, netflix

Alexis Madrigal and Ian Bogost for The Atlantic reverse engineered the Netflix genre…