Posts

NYT's "Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym?"

Incorporating Hamilton: An American Musical into your stats class.

Daniel's "Where Slang Comes From"

Ben Schmidt's Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews

Shameless Self Promotion

Davies' "Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users"

Aarti Shahani's "How will the next president protect our digital lives?"

Izadi's "Tweets can better predict heart disease rates than income, smoking and diabetes, study finds"

Facebook Data Science's "What are we most thankful for?"

Diane Fine Maron's "Tweets identify food poisoning outbreaks"

Nell Greenfieldboyce's "Big Data peeks at your medical records to find drug problems"

Jess Hartnett's presentation at the 2014 APS Teaching Institute

Washington Post's "What your beer says about your politics"

The Atlantic's "Congratulations, Ohio! You Are the Sweariest State in the Union"

Burr Settles's "On “Geek” Versus “Nerd”"

io9's "New statistics on lightning deaths in the U.S. reveal weird patterns"

University of Cambridge's Facebook Research

CNN's History of the Super Bowl: By the numbers