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The Merlin App, Machine Learning, and Bird Calls", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/05/citizen-scientists-unite-merlin-app.html", "published_at": "2024-05-04T23:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcbc99095e", "title": "Deer related insurance claims from State Farm", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/04/deer-car-accident-data-from-state-farm.html", "published_at": "2024-04-22T20:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcbd89aa37", "title": "How can we use data to determine the scariest horror movie?", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/04/using-pulse-rates-to-determine-scariest.html", "published_at": "2024-04-11T00:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcbd9c8ce9", "title": "Correlation =/= causation, featuring positive psychology, hygge, and no math.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/03/correlation-causation-featuring.html", "published_at": "2024-03-09T22:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcbe979a19", "title": "The limitations of regression...a mega remix", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-limitations-of-regressiona-mega.html", "published_at": "2024-03-08T12:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcbf2be62b", "title": "Factorial ANOVA, Tai Chi, and the importance of base rates", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/03/factorial-anova-tai-chi-and-importance.html", "published_at": "2024-03-04T14:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcbf6b9482", "title": "Explaining the median using a German game show.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/02/explaining-median-using-german-game-show.html", "published_at": "2024-02-21T14:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcbfd87503", "title": "Teaching Pre-Conference at SPSP 2024", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/02/teaching-pre-conference-at-spsp-2024.html", "published_at": "2024-02-08T23:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcc0831e3c", "title": "Social Comparison Theory: T-test, ANOVA, and a very common way to trichotomize data.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/02/social-comparison-theory-t-test-anova.html", "published_at": "2024-02-08T13:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcc10ea070", "title": "In which I compare t curves with Brazilian butt lifts.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2024/01/in-which-i-compare-t-curves-with.html", "published_at": "2024-01-27T00:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcc1247d7b", "title": "Update: Using baby name popularity to illustrate unimodal and bimodal data", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/12/update-using-baby-name-popularity-to.html", "published_at": "2023-12-08T17:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcc16d4ed6", "title": "A recording of a statsy talk I gave at Murray State University.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-recording-of-statsy-talk-i-gave-at.html", "published_at": "2023-11-30T14:54:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd4-0eb7-71ef-96ee-4abcc1fc4387", "title": "Generate highly personalized music data using Exportify", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/11/generate-highly-personalized-music-data.html", "published_at": "2023-11-03T15:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c695f4df3", "title": "Paired T-tests (Taylor's Version)", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/11/paired-t-tests-taylors-version.html", "published_at": "2023-11-01T16:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c699ee074", "title": "Blatant self-promotion: My textbook publisher is now accepting requests for exam copies of my textbook!!", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/10/blatant-self-promotion-my-textbook.html", "published_at": "2023-10-29T22:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c69d2b2d1", "title": "The Taylor Swift Effect: Does Tay-tay's presence influence Travis Kelce's performance?", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-taylor-swift-effect-does-tay-tays.html", "published_at": "2023-10-24T00:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6aa6e4cc", "title": "That time Mr. Beast did a paired t-test", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/10/that-time-mr-best-did-paired-t-test.html", "published_at": "2023-10-23T18:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6abc2ef7", "title": "Why do post-partum women see faces everywhere?", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/10/why-do-post-partum-women-see-faces.html", "published_at": "2023-10-12T15:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6b49b607", "title": "The Humble Nutrition Label", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-humble-nutrition-label.html", "published_at": "2023-10-07T16:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6bb13f22", "title": "SMARVUS database of stats students and many of their feelings and cognitions about stats", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/09/smarvus-database-of-stats-students-and.html", "published_at": "2023-09-06T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6c3a07a6", "title": "The Unstoppable Pop of Taylor Swift: Data visualizations, variable operationalization, and DATA DATA DATA", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-unstoppable-pop-of-taylor-swift.html", "published_at": "2023-08-08T23:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6d2c84c8", "title": "America's worse drivers, according to Consumer Affairs.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/07/americas-worse-drivers-according-to.html", "published_at": "2023-07-24T13:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6d8abc0f", "title": "Mark Rober's 14 minute long primer on machine learning", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/06/mark-robers-14-minute-long-primer-on.html", "published_at": "2023-06-30T13:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6e5e92e7", "title": "University of Pittsburgh's National Sports Brain Bank", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/06/university-of-pittsburghs-national.html", "published_at": "2023-06-26T14:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6ebc3fd1", "title": "\"Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them\" from Our World in Data", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/06/why-randomized-controlled-trials-matter.html", "published_at": "2023-06-05T21:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6f3b5c80", "title": "A simple tool operationalizes post-childbirth hemorrhaging and saves lives.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-simple-tool-operationalizes-post.html", "published_at": "2023-05-25T17:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c6f6bf0dd", "title": "CDC Mental Health Data", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/05/cdc-mental-health-data.html", "published_at": "2023-05-09T00:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c704942d9", "title": "MCU regression, revisited", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/04/mcu-regression-revisited.html", "published_at": "2023-05-01T00:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c71238954", "title": "A rank ordering of the Taylor Swift songbook.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-rank-ordering-of-taylor-swift-songbook.html", "published_at": "2023-04-28T14:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c71468339", "title": "1,200 years worth of cherry blossom bloom data from Kyoto, Japan.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/04/1200-years-worth-of-cherry-blossom.html", "published_at": "2023-04-18T13:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc7-71d6-a184-256c720fcd6f", "title": "Want to avoid federal regulation and increase profits? Just don't share your data.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/04/want-to-avoid-federal-regulation-and.html", "published_at": "2023-04-12T15:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc8-72e3-885b-269149919b81", "title": "Sampling Error (Taylor's Version)", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/03/sampling-error-taylors-version.html", "published_at": "2023-03-26T22:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc8-72e3-885b-269149a9e233", "title": "Can we use Instagram to estimate happiness at universities?", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/03/can-we-use-instagram-to-estimate.html", "published_at": "2023-03-24T17:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc8-72e3-885b-26914a3d226f", "title": "Are short, bitter people actually more likely to be psychopaths? Start with the click bait, end with the science.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/03/are-short-bitter-people-actually-more.html", "published_at": "2023-03-19T14:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc8-72e3-885b-26914b1facb2", "title": "Reading a statistical table is like reading those BAL tables your Uni passes out during Orientation Week.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/03/reading-statistical-table-is-like.html", "published_at": "2023-03-07T15:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc8-72e3-885b-26914b58c79e", "title": "Multiverse = multiple correlation and regression examples!", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/02/multiverse-multiple-correlation-and.html", "published_at": "2023-02-27T13:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc8-72e3-885b-26914c44d6f3", "title": "Using data about antidepressant efficacy to illustrate Cohen's d, demonstrate why you need a control group, talk about interactions.", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/02/using-data-about-antidepressant.html", "published_at": "2023-02-16T18:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bdd7-5cc8-72e3-885b-26914c9be163", "title": "A fast, interactive example for explaining what we mean when we talk about \"training\" AI/ML", "url": "https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-fast-interactive-example-for.html", "published_at": "2023-02-08T21:22:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Wehavethedata on Instagramoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
My favorite example of ordinal data.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Modern emoji data to freshen up your Fall 2026 lecturesoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2026
Antiarts' "Nepo status vs. career accomplishments" scatter plotoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2026
Fujii's "How to design effective scientific figures"original ↗
13 Jul 2026
What do SEMs and criminal investigations have in common?original ↗
7 Jul 2026
Modern musician vocabularies: See how I extracted this data using GenAI, and how you can use it in class.original ↗
1 Jul 2026
Lesson plan to teach statistical literacy to elementary school studentsoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2026
Psychedelics research: A blog post with Beth Morlingoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
An expected proportions chi-square, investigating Hollywood ethnic representation vs. USA IRL dataoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
MOAR GULL DATA!! Also, an actual independent t test and a conceptual factorial ANOVA.original ↗
27 May 2026
Using GenAI to generate teachable data sets (here, an independent t test)original ↗
9 May 2026
Young adult suicide is down, as demonstrated by regression.original ↗
29 Apr 2026
Statsplanations from Sketchplanationsoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2026
One small, psychological ANOVA example you can use in class.original ↗
16 Apr 2026
A McSweeney's Short Imagined Monologue, written from the viewpoint of correlation murdering causation.original ↗
16 Apr 2026
Mr. Beast gave us a real-life bee swarm plot.original ↗
4 Apr 2026
All of my favorite stats discussion topics in one place. Boom.original ↗
2 Apr 2026
Andi Putt's infographics on autism prevalence demonstrate y-axis truncation and the surveillance effect.original ↗
24 Mar 2026
This example starts with a chi-square but ends with a lesson on how even well-written prompts can result in hallucinations.original ↗
20 Mar 2026
Use spicy, spicy peppers to explain scales of measurement and/or the difference between categorical and continuous data.original ↗
15 Mar 2026

2025

A good JAMA article that demonstrates how to appropriately share relative and absolute risks.original ↗
28 Nov 2025
Z scores suggest that British parlimentarians are using ChatGPT to write speeches.original ↗
19 Nov 2025
Do Taylor Swift's album variants violate the assumption of independence?original ↗
8 Nov 2025
A memorable example of Goodhart's Law for all of my psychometric/assessment instructors.original ↗
4 Nov 2025
Percentiles, bee swarm plots, Bureau of Labor Statistics data...so many lessons in one interactive chart.original ↗
25 Sept 2025
Teaspoons, Tablespoons, and a new analogy for family-wise error.original ↗
23 Sept 2025
A joint Research Methods/Statistics blog post with Beth Morlingoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2025
A quick, accessible lesson on paired t-tests, featuring summer activities that people over 45 (me!) don't like.original ↗
15 Jul 2025
Rouse, Russel, & Campbell (2025) is a curated list of Psi Chi journals that are perfect for Intro Stats.original ↗
9 Jul 2025
UFO sightings peak on the Fourth of July. That's all.original ↗
4 Jul 2025
Rank choice voting, explained by CNN using ice creamoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2025
Does unusually heavy traffic at pizzerias near the Pentagon predict global military activity?original ↗
15 Jun 2025
An ode to Western Pennsylvania, in chi-square formoriginal ↗
18 May 2025
Full Discussion Board Idea #3: Deer-related car accidents by state.original ↗
8 May 2025
PWA data visualizations on YouTubeoriginal ↗
4 May 2025
Dima Yarovinsky's "I Agree": Data visualization meets installation art piece.original ↗
1 May 2025
Leo DiCaprio Romantic Age Gap Data: UPDATEoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2025
A wee bit of Positive Psychology data related to money and death.original ↗
23 Apr 2025
Full Discussion Board Idea #2: Trends in love songs, as illustrated by The Puddingoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2025
r/DataIsUglyoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2025
Annual snow fall moderates the relationship between daily snow fall and the likelihood of canceling schooloriginal ↗
3 Feb 2025
Absolute vs. relative risk reporting: Lake effect snow editionoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2025
Full Discussion Board Idea #1: Repurposing gently-used, second-hand data during times of crisisoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2025
Data can be equity: Merging of Major League Baseball and Negro League Baseball data.original ↗
1 Jan 2025

2024

Truncated Y-axis, but with female celebrities.original ↗
22 Dec 2024
Modal religions in American countiesoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2024
An interactive that gets your students thinking about medians, percentiles, and their own sleeping habits.original ↗
13 Nov 2024
Uncrustables consumption rates by NFL teams 1) do not vary by league, 2) do not correlate with 2023 winsoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2024
Subways! Murder! Absolute vs. relative risk!original ↗
18 Sept 2024
Turn your data into a GIF with Googleoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2024
Paris Olympics 2024: I'm here for the dank memesoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2024
Whataburger Index: Operationalizing power outages in hurricane ravaged Texas.original ↗
20 Jul 2024
Predictions are only as good as the regularity of the eventoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2024
Statistical thinking: What data would you need to collect to disprove the predictive power of astrological signs?original ↗
15 Jul 2024
Not a particularly statsy example, but still delightful.original ↗
8 Jul 2024
Caffeine, calories, correlationoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2024
Law of large numbers, via M&Ms and a GIF.original ↗
10 Jun 2024
How the USAF collects hurricane data with big, big airplanes.original ↗
4 Jun 2024
My other favorite stats newsletter: The Washington Post's How to Read This Chartoriginal ↗
11 May 2024
If you like this blog, you will love my new podcast...original ↗
8 May 2024
One of my favorite stats mailing lists: Chartroriginal ↗
5 May 2024
Citizen Scientists, Unite! The Merlin App, Machine Learning, and Bird Callsoriginal ↗
4 May 2024
Deer related insurance claims from State Farmoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2024
How can we use data to determine the scariest horror movie?original ↗
11 Apr 2024
Correlation =/= causation, featuring positive psychology, hygge, and no math.original ↗
9 Mar 2024
The limitations of regression...a mega remixoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2024
Factorial ANOVA, Tai Chi, and the importance of base ratesoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2024
Explaining the median using a German game show.original ↗
21 Feb 2024
Teaching Pre-Conference at SPSP 2024original ↗
8 Feb 2024
Social Comparison Theory: T-test, ANOVA, and a very common way to trichotomize data.original ↗
8 Feb 2024
In which I compare t curves with Brazilian butt lifts.original ↗
27 Jan 2024

2023

Update: Using baby name popularity to illustrate unimodal and bimodal dataoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2023
A recording of a statsy talk I gave at Murray State University.original ↗
30 Nov 2023
Generate highly personalized music data using Exportifyoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2023
Paired T-tests (Taylor's Version)original ↗
1 Nov 2023
Blatant self-promotion: My textbook publisher is now accepting requests for exam copies of my textbook!!original ↗
29 Oct 2023
The Taylor Swift Effect: Does Tay-tay's presence influence Travis Kelce's performance?original ↗
24 Oct 2023
That time Mr. Beast did a paired t-testoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2023
Why do post-partum women see faces everywhere?original ↗
12 Oct 2023
The Humble Nutrition Labeloriginal ↗
7 Oct 2023
SMARVUS database of stats students and many of their feelings and cognitions about statsoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2023
The Unstoppable Pop of Taylor Swift: Data visualizations, variable operationalization, and DATA DATA DATAoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2023
America's worse drivers, according to Consumer Affairs.original ↗
24 Jul 2023
Mark Rober's 14 minute long primer on machine learningoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2023
University of Pittsburgh's National Sports Brain Bankoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2023
"Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them" from Our World in Dataoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2023
A simple tool operationalizes post-childbirth hemorrhaging and saves lives.original ↗
25 May 2023
CDC Mental Health Dataoriginal ↗
9 May 2023
MCU regression, revisitedoriginal ↗
1 May 2023
A rank ordering of the Taylor Swift songbook.original ↗
28 Apr 2023
1,200 years worth of cherry blossom bloom data from Kyoto, Japan.original ↗
18 Apr 2023
Want to avoid federal regulation and increase profits? Just don't share your data.original ↗
12 Apr 2023
Sampling Error (Taylor's Version)original ↗
26 Mar 2023
Can we use Instagram to estimate happiness at universities?original ↗
24 Mar 2023
Are short, bitter people actually more likely to be psychopaths? Start with the click bait, end with the science.original ↗
19 Mar 2023
Reading a statistical table is like reading those BAL tables your Uni passes out during Orientation Week.original ↗
7 Mar 2023
Multiverse = multiple correlation and regression examples!original ↗
27 Feb 2023
Using data about antidepressant efficacy to illustrate Cohen's d, demonstrate why you need a control group, talk about interactions.original ↗
16 Feb 2023
A fast, interactive example for explaining what we mean when we talk about "training" AI/MLoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2023
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