Jun 22 To beat Vegas bookies at the World Cup, these statisticians turned to artificial intelligence By Amanda Grennell After cleaning up at the 2014 World Cup, statistician Andreas Groll is enlisting machine learning to keep his lucky streak going… Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch 3:15 My daughter escaped being a scary health statistic. Here’s what I learned. By PBS News Hour When Elizabeth Silver's daughter was 6 weeks old, she suffered a serious stroke and spent weeks in the NICU. Confronted with damning statistics, Silver began to see the numbers as one version of a story, with room for interpretation. The… Continue watching
May 02 Life in Freddie Gray’s childhood neighborhood by the numbers By Elisabeth Ponsot, Daniel Costa-Roberts On NewsHour Weekend Saturday, we bring you “Sandtown by the Numbers,” a special series of reports on life in Sandtown-Winchester, the impoverished Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray grew up and was arrested on April 12. Continue reading
Jan 24 A separated economist gets discriminated against — online By Paul Oyer Paul Oyer is an Ivy League-educated economist, but everything he ever needed to learn about economics he learned from online dating. In this adaptation from his new book, he explains how, as a separated man re-entering the dating scene, he… Continue reading
May 14 Watch Unemployment: Addressing a Worsening ‘Human Disaster’ in U.S. Unemployment: Addressing a Worsening 'Human Disaster' in U.S. Continue watching
Jan 30 Watch Hans Rosling Brings Life, Humor, Sword-Swallowing to Global Health Statistics Hans Rosling Brings Life, Humor, Sword-Swallowing to Global Health Statistics… Continue watching