Template To Handle Code of Conduct Incidents Reports Handling reported incidents related to a Code of Conduct (CoC) is a complex and delicate task. Managing reports timely and with care is crucial for maint...

Square Units [image: The biggest I've seen in a published source in the wild is an 80-fold error in a reported distance, which I think came from a series of at least th...

Reading the referee reports of that retracted paper by the science reformers: A peek behind the curtain One interesting sidelight of the story of a much criticized and finally retracted article on replication in psychology is that we get to read some of the r...

Is Artificial Intelligence Revolutionizing Environmental Health? *NOTE: This post was written by Kevin Elliott, Michigan State University; Nicole Kleinstreuer, National Institutes of Health; Patrick McMullen, ScitoVati...

Triple GM Abhishek Thakur Answers Qs from the Kaggle Community Last week we crowned the world’s first-ever Triple Grandmaster, Abhishek Thakur. In a video interview with Kaggle Data scientist Walter Reade, Abhishek ans...

Race and Attraction, 2009 – 2014 We looked at race in one of our very first posts, and today I’d like to revisit the topic with fresh data. This article folds in millions of person-to-pers...

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Jedi master of data: Hans Rosling It has been inspiring to watch how Hans Rosling gave impressive talks about numbers and statistics. If you haven’t seen any of his great presentations, her...

CMOOL Farewell *Past Events* It was great to see everyone at the annual Statistics Department picnic! Here are a few pictures we borrowed from the 133 in Jo...

Hiatus Due to an unexpected, but positive, turn of events, I will have to hold off on posting at pitchR/x for a few months. I was pretty excited about starting th...