uncertainty

This week we talk randomness in the everyday.

You’re probably going to see election forecasts more this month, and one candidate…

For The New Yorker, Jay Caspian Kang relates the election’s unwavering randomness to…

Given the topic and situation in Florida, I’m making this issue public. Hurricane Milton is en route.

Hurricane Milton continues towards Florida, estimated to make landfall on October 9, 2024…

Jed Kolko, the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs of the…

It’s easy to look at data and assume truthiness. Numbers! Facts! Concreteness! A lot of the time that’s just not the case.

To demonstrate the level of uncertainty in using climate forecasting models, Bloomberg compared…

Michael Correll describes two kinds of bar charts in the world. The first…

Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…

You’ve probably noticed that the weather forecast can change a lot for predictions…

Visualization and analysis is usually about minimizing uncertainty to more clearly see patterns. On the other hand, games force you to play through uncertainty.

Thinking about life and randomness, Cameron Sun modified the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe.…

Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different…

In Statistics, analysis is more often about finding a range of possible answers than it is about finding a precise one.

Sometimes the noise, something we often try to minimize in data, makes for a better signal.

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

It seems that there is always surprise when a hurricane makes landfall in…

Connecting back to the real world is how we fill in the gaps.