By Rosemarie Emanuele. It is not often that people bearing the description “Geek” attain a status that has others comparing them to “rock stars.” Yet that is exactly what has happened to statistician Nate Silver, who writes a blog about the statistics behind current events, including politics. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. While some propose other ways to interact with data, the idea of “hypothesis testing” still plays a major role in the study of and teaching of Statistics. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. PEN America recently published a substantial report on freedom of speech on campus (covered here). This seems a natural subject for the organization to address, given its mission. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. What’s going on with WikiLeaks? A site that originally set out to provide documents of political corruption and reveal war crimes to augment news reports and hold governments accountable has been on a tear of foolishness lately. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. Poor old Yahoo. Three weeks ago, we found out that, oopsie, 500 million of their users had their data hacked, the biggest breach of a single company (that we know of – yet). Read more...
By Barbara Fister. Cognitive dissonance made me do it. If you want social justice, why do you let your research be locked up for profit. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Because I am still registered to vote in Yates County, New York, but work in Massachusetts, I voted last week when I went home to the Finger Lakes. I couldn’t fill out that ballot fast enough. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. To even speak its name, I know, opens the potential to a Pandora’s box of comments about its very definition, interpretation and schools. Have at it if you want, but to do so is not my intent. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. In 1967, William Styron won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for his novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, based on the real life slave rebellion in 1831. He later wrote the haunting fictional story Sophie’s Choice that echoed real life survivors’ personal horror of the Holocaust. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Two main headlines confronted us this week. The AT&T proposed purchase of Time Warner and the Dyn cyberattack. Question: What do these two events have in common? Answer: how commerce operates in the “free market,” and how those operations affect the public. Read more...
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