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Why Nate Silver and others predicted the election perfectly
This chart by Rafa Irizarry at Simply Statistics pretty much sums up the amount of egg on the faces of anyone who questioned Nate Silver’s prediction that President Obama had a greater than 90 percent...
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Maybe big data can quell gun violence — but not in the way you think
Updated: If the United States really wants to solve its problem with gun deaths, it might want to look at the data. But the process won’t be easy and almost certainly won’t provide a magic model by...
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Data for dummies: 6 data-analysis tools anyone can use
If you care only about the cutting edge of machine learning and how to manage petabytes of big data, you might want to quit reading now and just come to our Structure:Data conference in March. But if...
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Why big data matters and data-ism doesn’t
There has been something of a data backlash happening lately, and I think I’ve figured out why: Data for the sake of data has a tendency to sanitize experiences we’d rather leave a little bit dirty....
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Google’s flu snafu and the reliability of web data
The web is full of data — much of it meaningful — but there’s some question as to how much we should actually rely on it. The latest evidence comes at Google’s expense, with some researchers...
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For big data analytics, recall the tried and true old-school rules
Data analysis didn’t start with Hadoop. Companies have been working with data to get insights for decades. While technology has changed, some of the rules from the past still apply, or ought to, as...
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Statwing wants to make your data — and armchair quarterback — dreams come true
There’s nothing quite like getting settling into the couch on Sunday afternoon (or morning on west coast), cracking open a beer and yelling at a football coach who gets paid millions of dollars a year...
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ESPN should just hire Nate Silver already
This story was corrected at 4:17 p.m. because the author incorrectly stated that Michigan State, one of the Final Four teams selected by the SAP model, had been eliminated from the tournament. OK, so...
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Liking curly fries might not mean you’re smart: When mere data isn’t enough
You might have heard recently about a study finding that liking “curly fries” on Facebook correlates strongly with high intelligence. Publications such as Wired have written about it. Quid Founder and...
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Predicting Twitter popularity is all about probability
Tweets have the power to decimate markets, but they also have users and companies seeing dollar signs. With huge marketing, political, and social mobilization potential, how can you predict which...
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Kaggle now has 100K data scientists, but what’s a data scientist?
Data science competition platform Kaggle has reached the 100,000-member milestone just over three years after launching, the company announced on its blog Thursday morning. That could mean either a lot...
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How to maximize your Reddit upvotes, by the numbers
The short answer to getting a lot of upvotes on your Reddit posts, the watering hole of the web? Post good content, post in the morning and choose your headline carefully. This according to a group of...
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This analysis of Wikipedia controversies is really cool and a little sad
I don’t know what it says about the English-speaking world (OK, in this case probably the United States) that its Wikipedia contributors disagree more about professional wrestlers than nearly any other...
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Airbnb calculates who gets and gives the best reviews (and young hosts don’t...
Renting a room or an apartment on Airbnb is kind of a crapshoot, but the service recently crunched some numbers to figure out what factors play the biggest role in positive reviews. It might seem like...
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A master’s degree in statistics is worthwhile
Based on the data scientists I’ve met and the “how to become a data scientist” talks I’ve seen, it’s hard to disagree. But SQL and coding skills can be really helpful if you need need to get stuff done...
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Notice to startups: You are doing data science wrong
When we think about data science, we think of a mythical laboratory where scientists are feverishly crunching numbers to provide a clear quantitative view of the future. We’ve been sold on the idea...
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Fantasy football is apparently the killer app for data science
Hey, you, data science startup that has cool technology but is struggling to find a compelling way to demonstrate it. Here’s some free advice: fantasy football. It’s huge business, the National...
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Yale professor challenges Microsoft “Bing it On” claims
Do you remember those “Bing it On” ads? Microsoft ran advertisements that claimed a pool of 1,000 users “preferred Bing 2 to 1,” and allowed users to try it themselves with BingItOn.com. Yale professor...
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More than a third of all YouTube viewing comes from longform content
Looks like YouTube’s push towards professional and longform content is starting have a real impact on what people are watching on the site: More than a third of all video viewing time on YouTube can be...
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Awesome: A New York Times bot is second-guessing NFL coaches on Twitter
It’s no secret that, statistically speaking, National Football League head coaches should go for it on fourth down more often than they do. The odds have been calculated lots of times, and fans, sports...
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