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Statistics need Stories to give them meaning. Stories need Statistics to give them credibility. Every Thursday John Bailer & Rosemary Pennington get together with a new, interesting guest to...
In the late 1600s, a book was published satirizing politics in Europe. Published two decades after the end of the 30 Years’ War, it focuses...
With the arrival of spring, anticipation grows for the start of horse racing in the United States. The pinnacle of success in the sport is a...
Barry Nussbaum (@StatisticsBarry ) is former Chief Statistician at the US EPA, and is president-elect of the American Statistical Associatio...
More than 3 billion people rely on seafood to supply a significant portion of the annual protein in their diets. That number will only rise...
The work of suffragettes in both the United Kingdom and the United States has been immortalized in textbooks, as well as in movies and TV. T...
In early January 2026, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced changes to the childhood immunization schedules, reduci...
Three hundred and thirty-two days, that was the international statistic of the year in 2020, as identified by the Royal Statistical Society....
According to the World Bank, some 3.5 billion people live on less than $7 a day. That's more than 40% of the global population. Almost 700 m...
Dr. Lloyd Edwards is Professor and Chair of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Edwards has an extensive backgroun...
Television is filled with "will they or won't they" couples. Friends had Ross and Rachel. Parks and Rec had Leslie and Ben. The Gilmore Girl...
Peter Guttorp (@pgseattle) is a Professor at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, Norway, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Was...
When it comes to studying conflict, there is obvious data to examine: spending on arms, the number of people killed or injured, and the amou...
Hybrid cars are everywhere now but what is your best option if you want to feel the wind in your hair, or at least under your helmet and you...
The Billboard Hot 100 has been ranking the week's most popular music since 1958. The first song to top the chart was Ricky Nelson's Poor Lit...
On the podcast, we talk about the ways we live in and with data, as well as the ways data shape our lives and our politics. Public discourse...
Glenn Platt (@glennplatt) is the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Network Technology & Management & Director of Interactive Media Studies a...
American Football is a game played with 11 players on offense competing against 11 players on defense, with a sequence of plays executed as...
News stories are filled with tales of risk and uncertainty. We're told the probable chance of a weather event or how likely it is that we mi...
Linda J. Young is Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Servic...
Statistical literacy was described by Iddo Gal as "the ability to interpret, critically, evaluate and communicate about statistical informat...
The costumes are ready and the annual opportunity to go out and harass your neighbors to get candy is once again upon us. Yes, it's time for...
Data visualizations are everywhere, showing up in social media, in the news, and on company websites. With this onslaught, it can be hard to...
When American comedian and actor Betty White died, fans lamented the fact that she had just missed making it to her 100th birthday. They fel...
Fall is admissions season at universities across the United States. As colleges work to recruit a new class, a new working paper suggests th...
The international prize in statistics is awarded every two years by a collaboration among five leading international statistics organization...
Matthew Shearing is a private sector consultant working globally in partnership with the public, private and not-for-profit sectors on impro...
Have you ever wondered if what you eat is aging you, or whether women in red really are sexier? In addition to turning to Reddit for the ans...
A statistician walks into a bar, and a comedy and art show begins. Creative work for scholars can extend beyond novel research and applicati...
John Bailer is “the stats guy” and co-creator of Stats+Stories. He is also University Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of...
Have you ever wondered if people actually hate Coldplay? Do you want statistical proof that Game of Thrones did not stick the landing in its...
What is a median? How about an interquartile range? Don’t even get me started on how to define a p-value. These statistical concepts are har...
The National Association of science writers has about 2000 members, even as the field of science journalism has been experiencing a contract...
The health of the world's oceans is a growing concern but measuring ocean health is a complicated undertaking. Some people studying the issu...
The Amazon has been imagined as a pristine wilderness, one in need of protection from development. This framing has often treated the Amazon...
Early in the COVID pandemic, as we figured out how to live our lives solely at home, news stories began to be filled with stories about COVI...
What is the best way to support people living in extreme poverty? Could unconditional cash transfers and universal basic income be viable op...
Rory McIlroy was leading the 2025 U.S. Masters golf tournament by two strokes after three rounds. So was his ultimate victory a sure thing?...
What comes to mind at the start of summer? Backyard barbecues, quality time spent, and long drive. Transportation safety is the topic of thi...
Every year, statistics classes are filled with math averse students who white knuckle it to the end of the semester in the hopes of getting...
An entire industry has grown up around nutrition and health. People pushing everything from shakes, to meal kits, to special diets. While so...
In a commencement speech in 2016, Atul Gawande told the crowd that science is a, "commitment to a systematic way of thinking, an allegiance...
More than 15 years ago, Thomas Friedman wrote, “I prefer the term “global weirding,” because that is what actually happens as global tempera...
Earth day was launched in 1970 in the aftermath of several environmental disasters in the publication of Rachel Carson Silent Spring. It was...
According to the U.S. State Department, three-fifths of global GDP, three-quarters of world trade, and 90 percent of official development as...
When people think of public goods, they most likely think of things like parks or schools. But official statistics are also a kind of public...
Lisa LaVange is the 2018 President of the American Statistical Association and she is PhD, is Professor and Associate Chair of the Departmen...
Chart Spark | Stats + Stories Episode 359 by The Stats + Stories Team
The use of force by police has been in the news a lot lately, in connection to everything from protests on college campuses to the death of...
The COVID pandemic has complicated everything from school to work to grocery shopping. The need to physically distance from people not in ou...
Sports analytics is a booming industry with new technologies allowing for the parsing of ever more sophisticated statistics. Analysts can no...