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Confounding Variables Can Bias Your Results
Jun 22nd · Omitted variable bias occurs when a model omits confounding variables. This bias can completely flip your results! Learn how to detect and correct it.
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Recommendations | Giving Green
3 min read · Apr 2nd · Our current recommendations target two key areas: Carbon Offsets, which seek to cause immediate, verifiable decreases of GHGs in the atmosphere; and US Policy Change, which aims to change US policy to…
The Pudding
The Naked Truth
8 min read · Mar 25th · How the names of 6,816 complexion products can reveal bias in beauty
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Pruned Correlations
3 min read · Mar 29th · Structured data tends to come in rows for observations and columns for variables. Whenever you run into a new dataset, it seems a good idea to stroll along its columns in order to establish a data…
The New Yorker
What Data Can’t Do
8 min read · Mar 22nd · When it comes to people—and policy—numbers are both powerful and perilous.
The Atlantic
Why the Pandemic Experts Failed
10 min read · Mar 15th · We're still thinking about pandemic data in the wrong ways.
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Öffentliche Statistiken zu Todesfällen, Übersterblichkeit, Todesursachen und meldepflichtigen Erkrankungen
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Vox
One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong
9 min read · 2020-11-10 · The kind of people who answer polls are really weird, and it’s ruining polling.
Observable
Cheysson Color Palettes
Jan 21st · Resuable color palettes, provided as SVG patterns, based on the late 1800s French Albums de Statistique Graphique by engineer and data visualization pioneer Émile Cheysson. Introduction This notebook…
The Atlantic
The Real Polling Catastrophe
5 min read · 2020-11-04 · If public-opinion data are unreliable, American democracy is flying blind.
The Conversation
Reports of the death of polling have been greatly exaggerated
7 min read · 2020-10-29 · People around the world were shocked when Hillary Clinton, ahead in many polls, didn't end up the U.S.' president-elect. But that doesn't mean the polls themselves were wrong.
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Daten, Daten, Daten: So sind wir vorgegangen
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