uncertainty

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.

For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia, Josh Katz and Margot Sanger-Katz show the…

Sarah Kliff and Aatish Bhatia for NYT’s The Upshot look at the uncertainty…

Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post used a bar chart with corrections…

We see probabilities mentioned in the news, in weather forecasts, during sporting events,…

Visualization and perception researcher Lace Padilla was on the kid-centric show Mission Unstoppale…

In his new data-driven documentary, Neil Halloran digs into the uncertainty attached to…

People’s interpretation of a chart can change if you use differents words to describe it, even if the data stays the same.