As my father-in-law’s Facebook feed would suggest, the “algorithm” has a way of…

Fabien Wagner works with CTrees in an effort to map tree canopy height…

By just about every metric, flights are slower now than they were 30…

Probability itself is an expression of uncertainty, but the calculations behind the percentages…

There was a brouhaha a couple months ago over research that suggested black…

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and…

For Bloomberg, Jeannette Neumann describes the accounting error:
For years, Macy’s Inc. touted…

Our World in Data is a hub for research and reliable data to…

We like to imagine a world of autonomous robots that take care of…

Foursquare, which I thought was still a location sharing app but is a…

To demonstrate how easy and cheap it is to access the Bluesky firehose,…

For BBC, Zoe Kleinman reports:
Not so long ago, 23andMe was in the…

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…

For The Guardian, statistician David Spiegelhalter describes three kinds of luck:

Circumstantial luck…

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

AI models are trained on data, and better data helps make better models.…

In the latest of the genre I-followed-AI-advice-blindly-here-is-what-I-got, Ceylan Yeğinsu for the New York…

It’s gotten relatively easy to replace mouth movements in video and to generate…

For The Pudding, Russell Samora and Michelle Pera-McGhee gave generative AI a serious…