Does your vote matter? Aaron Bycoffe and David Wasserman for FiveThirtyEight provide an…
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How various demographic groups can change the election result
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NBA player career projections
Predictions for how NBA players will contribute to their teams, based on their own performance and history.
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Lessons in statistical significance, uncertainty, and their role in science
Science is hard. Statistics is hard. Proving cause and effect is hard.
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Criminal sentencing and a stat lesson on probabilities and uncertainty
Pennsylvania is considering the use of risk assessment — the chances that someone…
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Twitter bot generates biographies via Census data
We usually see Census data in aggregate. It comes in choropleth maps or…
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Fudging the crime statistics and police misconduct
CompStat is a program that started in the New York Police Department, and…
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Oldest person in the world keeps dying
Gertrude Weaver, 116 years old, was the oldest person in the world for…
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Every NBA team rated over several decades
Which NBA basketball team is the greatest ever? Instead of a circular debate…
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Rising beef prices and cattle theft
Eric Benson for FiveThirtyEight delves into cattle theft, which can cost an owner…
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Speedy crossword solvers
Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight covered this year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the…
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NCAA tournament bracket predictions
March Madness starts this week in the states, which means it’s time for…
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Find the fastest flight between airports
Flight arrival and departure times are often thought of in terms of “on…
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Every NBA team’s chances of winning, by game minute
Michael Beuoy made a win probability model for NBA teams and games, based…
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Analysis of Bob Ross paintings
As a lesson on conditional probability for himself, Walt Hickey watched 403 episodes…
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The New York Times announced their data-driven news site, The Upshot
John McDuling for Quartz writes about the FiveThirtyEight replacement.
David Leonhardt, the Times’…
