While Model Trains

Read data blog posts.
Carefully handpicked.
Presented 3 at a time.

The Four Jobs of the Data Scientist

Roger Peng

For each "Data Analytic Iteration," you need to embody the roles of a scientist, statistician, system engineer, and politician.

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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

Colin Morris

A fascinating visual essay that utilizes the Lempel-Ziv algorithm (which powers GIFs, PNGs, and most archive formats) to analyze if pop songs are becoming more repetitive.

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In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia

Colin Morris

"Prize for least popular article of 2021 is shared by two articles which received exactly 3 probably-human pageviews."

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