In the Press
In addition to books and blogs, I write the Statbusters column for The Daily Beast, with Andrew Gelman. My writing has appeared in many publications, including Harvard Business Review, FiveThirtyEight, American Scientist, Wired, Slate, and Significance. I have also been cited by New York Times, Financial Times, CNN, BBC News, and others.
On Data Visualization
The Unspoken Rules of Data Visualisation, DataJournalism.com, January 2020
Cited by Scott Berinato, in Visualizing Trouble, Harvard Business Review, Oct 2013
Junk Charts Trifecta Checkup, Junk Charts, May 2010
Knowledge in the Chart and Knowledge in the Head, Junk Charts, Feb 2014
An Overused Chart, Why It Fails, and How to Fix It, Junk Charts, Apri 2014
What is Seasonal Adjustment and Why is It Used, Junk Charts, Nov 2011
The Scatter-plot Matrix, Junk Charts, Jun 2010
Insufficiency and Illusions, Junk Charts, Sep 2012
On Data Science
Should You Leave a Baseball Game Early?, FiveThirtyEight, July 2018.
The Trouble with Triage Testing, Wired, March 2020
Do Covid Symptom Tracking Apps Work?, Wired, May 2020
Explaining NYC Restaurant Grades, FiveThirtyEight, Sep 2014
Why Websites Still Can't Predict Exactly What You Want, HBR, May 2014
Evaluating Airfare Predictors, FiveThirtyEight, Apr 2014
Why Ad Fraud Thrives, HBR, Oct 2015
Ethics in Data Science, HBR, Nov 2015
Fareed Zakaria picks Numbers Rule Your World as Book of the Week, CNN, Sept 2010.
Cited by Tim Harford, in Big Data: Are we making a big mistake?, Financial Times, Mar 2014
Google Flu Trends' Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data, Harvard Business Review, Mar 2014
Why Most A/B Tests Fail, Big Data Plainly Spoken, Apr 2014 (Image credit: Marc Levin, mil8 on Flickr)
Towards a More Useful Definition of Big Data, Big Data Plainly Spoken, Mar 2014
Never a Failed Test Fails the Statistical Test, Numbers Rule Your World, May 2011