Frustrated with vehicles blocking bus and bike lanes, Alex Bell applied some statistical…Tags: bike lane, machine learning | Continue reading
Michael W. Kearney implemented a classifier for Twitter bots. It’s called botornot: Uses…Tags: bot, machine learning, Twitter | Continue reading
The Upshot has used a needle to show shifts in their live election…Tags: needle, uncertainty, Upshot | Continue reading
Kofi Annan for Nature on the importance of data in ending poverty and…Tags: gaps, hunger | Continue reading
Many cities provide free bus tickets for homeless people who want to relocate.…Tags: Guardian, homeless | Continue reading
Speaking of outliers, it’s not always obvious when and why a data point…Tags: outlier, R | Continue reading
Neural networks can feel like a black box, because, well, for most people…Tags: Google, neural network | Continue reading
Step 1: Figure out why the outlier exists in the first place. Step 2: Choose from these visualization options to show the outlier.Tags: outlier | Continue reading
I think it’s every statistician’s fantasy to crack open a lottery’s flaw using the numbers. No? Just me? Okay, whatever.Tags: lottery | Continue reading
As 2020 approaches, let's aim for higher accuracy and less uncertainty.Tags: census, counting | Continue reading
In a project he calls Sentence Space, Robin Sloan implemented a neural network…Tags: neural network, sentence | Continue reading
False positives. Over-policing. Bias. This isn't stuff you just mess around with.Tags: Palantir, police, prediction, privacy, Verge | Continue reading
Smart home. Smart city. They have a positive ring to it, as if…Tags: privacy, smart city | Continue reading
556 people have gone to space. In an article on their changed perspectives,…Tags: astronauts, National Geographic, space | Continue reading
Make the unit chart less abstract with icons that represent the data, or use this in place of a bar chart.Tags: R | Continue reading
Birds migrate to areas more hospitable, but where do they go? It depends…Tags: birds, migration | Continue reading
A car moving at 70 miles per hour has to stop suddenly. Another…Tags: Numberphile, speeding, traffic | Continue reading
Mikhail Popov, a data scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, led a workshop on…Tags: learning | Continue reading
A waiting simulator to take out some of the guesswork.Tags: simulation, waiting | Continue reading
Every year, we look at the medal counts of each country. Who’s winning?…Tags: Josh Katz, Olympics, Upshot | Continue reading
Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…Tags: privacy, travel | Continue reading
Mikaela Shiffrin won her first gold medal in PyeongChang with a fraction of…Tags: New York Times, Olympics, skiing | Continue reading
This is fun. It’s a fantasy map generator with the following rules: Project…Tags: fantasy, generator | Continue reading
One of my least favorite electrical engineering courses in college was on signals…Tags: Fourier Transform | Continue reading
When you have input to send Congress, you have a number of communication…Tags: feedback, flowchart, government | Continue reading
If you’re looking for some data to play with, FiveThirtyEight just made it…Tags: FiveThirtyEight | Continue reading
Well this is awesome. The New York Times highlighted four olympians with a…Tags: New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading
You know those graphics that use icons of people to represent units or…Tags: font, icons, people | Continue reading
After living expenses, where does the money go, and how does it change when you have more cash available?Tags: spending | Continue reading
Well this is awesome. The Winter Olympics start this Friday, and The New…Tags: augmented reality, New York Times, Olympics | Continue reading
Professional tennis player Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title recently. He’s…Tags: Roger Federer, sports, tennis | Continue reading
The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…Tags: geometry, theorem | Continue reading
Odds are if you’re reading this, you know what statistics is already, but…Tags: learning, video | Continue reading
FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…Tags: FiveThirtyEight, gerrymandering, government | Continue reading
Musician Kaki King’s daughter suffers from a condition (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) where her…Tags: Giorgia Lupi, health, human, Kaki King | Continue reading
Also known as waffle charts. Using animated transitions between values, you can allow for comparisons between categories.Tags: d3js | Continue reading
Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…Tags: military, privacy, Strava | Continue reading
We love complete and nicely formatted data. That's not what we get a lot of the time.Tags: missing data | Continue reading
This fake follower piece by Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris, and…Tags: bot, fake, Twitter | Continue reading
Inspired by Dear Data, the data drawing pen pal project, designers Josefina Bravo,…Tags: illustration, postcards | Continue reading
Evie Liu and William Davis, reporting MarketWatch, looked at release strategies of Oscar…Tags: movies, Oscars | Continue reading
Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question…Tags: democracy, New York Times | Continue reading
Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…Tags: NASA, population | Continue reading
I think we can all benefit from knowing a little more about others…Tags: demographics | Continue reading
According to NASA estimates, 2017 was the second warmest year on record since…Tags: environment, global warming, New York Times | Continue reading
New data dump from the Wikimedia Foundation: The Wikimedia Foundation’s Analytics team is…Tags: Wikipedia | Continue reading
From ABC News, this is a clever comparison between people’s worst fears and…Tags: fear | Continue reading
This is a fun ditty by Vasco Asturiano. I’m a little too far…Tags: music | Continue reading