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Are 81 percent of Elon Musk's twitter followers fake?
Algorithms

Are 81 percent of Elon Musk's twitter followers fake?

Kaiser reads an estimate of Musk's spam proportion.
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The Musk sampling plan, thought through
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The Musk sampling plan, thought through

Kaiser examines Elon Musk's plan to find out what proportion of twitter users are spam.
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All else is never equal
Analytics-business interaction

All else is never equal

Kaiser discusses the popular all-else-being-equal analyses.
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Reading Gelman's take on election polling
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Reading Gelman's take on election polling

Kaiser reads Andrew Gelman's paper about failures in election forecasting.
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Great data journalism should have destroyed Djokovic's story but it didn't
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Great data journalism should have destroyed Djokovic's story but it didn't

Kaiser describes some fun data sleuthing work as Germans looked into a tennis superstar's Covid-19 test results.
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Open questions of the pandemic, part 2
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Open questions of the pandemic, part 2

Kaiser continues to discuss open questions of the pandemic, including questions raised by a recent White House graphic.
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