YouGov, 2021–present
176 articles
- YouGov's The Surveyor, a Substack newsletter
2026 11 articles
- The Supreme Court, gender equality, and more: September 4 - 8, 2026 Economist / YouGov Poll
- Likely voters, data centers, 'woke,' and more: August 21 - 24, 2026 Economist / YouGov Poll
- War in Iran, sexual-assault accusations against candidates, NATO, Trump, and more: July 10 - 13, 2026 Economist/YouGov Poll
- Freedom is the value Americans say best represents the U.S.
- Trust in Media 2026: Which news sources Americans use and trust
- The ICE shooting, Venezuela, Greenland, Trump approval, and the economy: January 9-12, 2026 Economist/YouGov Poll
- More Americans view the ICE shooting in Minnesota as unjustified than say it is justified
- Democrats and Republicans agree more about Venezuela's future than about its recent past
- Trump's approval is up among men and Hispanics but down among Republicans and women
- The latest opinion on Venezuela, Trump approval shifts, Epstein cover-up concerns, and inequality: January 2-5, 2026 Economist/YouGov Poll
- Surveys just after Maduro's capture show Americans are divided on U.S. military action in Venezuela
2025 12 articles
- Americans' economic expectations of better things hit a low while anticipation of more of the same peaks
- Americans doubt politicians and the establishment, plus views on the economy and Ukraine aid: December 26-29, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll
- Trump's job approval falls, the Epstein investigation, Venezuela, and holiday arguments: December 20-22, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll
- Most Americans have never had a political argument at a holiday celebration
- Trump approval slump persists, economic worries grow, Trump's Ukraine plan, and illegal orders: November 28-December 1, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll
- Donald Trump's streak of negative job approval numbers
- A slight Trump approval rebound, shutdown chances, Comey, vaccines, and the economy: September 26 - 29, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll
- Jimmy Kimmel, civil rights, Ukraine aid, tariffs, Venezuela, and King Charles III: September 19 - 22, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll
- Ranking Americans' most hated foods
- Trust in Media 2025: Which news sources Americans use and trust
- Tracking opinion on Donald Trump's second-term policy agenda
- Donald Trump's economy, Republican unity, Ukraine, and education: March 9-11, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll
2024 33 articles
- How Americans have reacted to Donald Trump's 2024 victory
- After the 2024 election, voters share hopes and fears for a second Trump term
- Trump supporters hold a bleak view of the economy heading into the election
- How Americans think fictional characters would vote in 2024
- It's a close race in battleground states, new Times/SAY24 polling finds
- Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump narrowly in YouGov's final MRP 2024 presidential estimates
- Democrats lead narrowly in the House while Republicans have an edge in the Senate, according to our final MRP estimates
- The Economy: What 2024 voters want and which candidate they trust
- Social issues: What 2024 voters want and which candidate they trust
- Immigration: What 2024 voters want and which candidate they trust
- Health care: What 2024 voters want and which candidate they trust
- Harris vs. Trump on the issues: Whose policies do voters prefer?
- Foreign policy: What 2024 voters want and which candidate they trust
- Environment and energy: What 2024 voters want and which candidate they trust
- Education: What 2024 voters want and which candidate they trust
- Crime: What 2024 voters want and which candidate they trust
- Times/SAY24 poll shows Harris leading as Americans split on whether our best days are behind us or ahead of us
- Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump as YouGov's latest MRP 2024 presidential estimates show very close race
- Democrats hold narrow lead in the House while Republicans have a slight edge in the Senate, according to new YouGov model
- Republicans are favored to win the Senate, and Democrats to win the House, in new YouGov model
- How views of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump changed after their debate
- Kamala Harris' debate win hasn't yet won her new voters, but more like her and see her as qualified
- Kamala Harris holds a narrow lead over Donald Trump in YouGov's first MRP estimates of the 2024 presidential election
- Harris wins the debate: Voters say she has clearer plans and tells fewer lies than Trump
- How Americans expect Harris and Trump to perform in their first debate
- Kamala Harris leads in four of seven swing states in the latest Times/SAY24 polling
- Finding common ground: 109 national policy proposals with bipartisan support
- After Biden's exit: Far more Democrats say they're optimistic, and most back Harris
- Times/SAY24 poll shows Kamala Harris trailing, with lots of opportunities and challenges
- Times/SAY24 swing-state polls show Biden trailing and Democratic Senate candidates leading
- Trust in Media 2024: Which news sources Americans trust — and which they think lean left or right
- Trump supporters warm toward legal immunity for ex-presidents
- Love, sex, and heartbreak: Commonalities in American relationship experiences
2023 72 articles
- Which U.S. military interventions do Americans think have been successful?
- The election, foreign spending, and Taylor Swift: the Dec. 9-12, 2023 Economist/YouGov Poll
- What do Americans want in a primary care provider? An honest practitioner who takes their insurance
- Congress, Biden, Gaza, and China: key results from the Nov. 18-20, 2023 Economist/YouGov Poll
- Polls from the Past: How opinion has changed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Laws legalizing abortion and same-sex marriage nationwide are more popular than nationwide bans
- There's mixed approval of new House Speaker Mike Johnson, whom Americans see as conservative
- Americans are growing less sympathetic to Israel as war fears grow
- What surveys say about Mike Johnson and the House's long speaker battle
- Inflation is falling and the Middle East is at war but prices remain Americans' No. 1 issue
- Like Republicans in the House, party members haven't coalesced around a pick for speaker
- In the Israel-Hamas war, Americans are more likely to support Israel and to have doubts about Biden
- How Americans are reacting to escalating violence in Israel
- Lots of Americans like both Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce — and their new relationship
- More Americans support than oppose the U.S. military’s partnership with SpaceX
- More Americans side with workers than with automakers in the latest UAW strike
- Hunter Biden's indictment gets more support than the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden
- Across generations: Americans describe close relationships with their grandparents and grandchildren
- Views on COVID-19 and vaccines remain divided by party
- How do Americans think Donald Trump is being treated by the criminal justice system?
- Many Americans link increases in extreme weather to climate change
- Majorities of Americans are concerned about the spread of AI deepfakes and propaganda
- Many Americans — including most Republicans — believe the pope should stay out of U.S. affairs
- Majorities of Americans support age limits for Congress and mental-competency tests
- Bipartisan majorities support allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices
- Which technologies do Americans associate with AI?
- Americans are divided on the impact of college fraternities and sororities
- How Americans feel about the death penalty
- New poll shows DeSantis's support among national Republicans continuing to fall
- What Americans think of the latest charges against Donald Trump
- Few Americans are aware of growth in the number of U.S. jobs
- How Americans evaluate the charges filed against Donald Trump in three cases
- How Americans rate the performance of U.S. agencies handling immigration
- A growing share of Americans say Mitch McConnell's health and age severely limit his abilities
- More Americans say Trump urged violence on January 6, 2021 than say he didn't
- One in four Americans say there is currently a COVID-19 pandemic
- Most Americans support strikes by Hollywood writers and actors
- Majorities of Americans say it's too hot where they live and expect temperatures to rise in 10 years
- Just one in three Americans support the U.S. supplying Ukraine with cluster bombs
- Half of Americans believe that government inflation statistics understate the problem
- Few Americans know about the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, but most would be willing to use it
- What do Americans think about the Civil War?
- Economic indicators are positive or mixed. Economic opinion indicators remain negative
- More Republicans have DeSantis as their second-choice candidate than as their first
- How Americans evaluate JFK, RFK Jr., their relatives — and other unrelated Kennedys
- How Americans evaluate the Supreme Court and its recent rulings
- More Americans now blame inflation on large corporations than did so last October
- Four in 10 Americans say their air quality is currently being affected by wildfires
- Post-Wagner rebellion, fewer Americans expect Putin to be Russia's president in a year
- Most Americans don't have an opinion on Moms for Liberty; those who do are divided
- If money were no object, 12% of Americans say they'd want to take a submarine to the ocean floor
- Which tasks will AI do better than human professionals in the next decade, according to Americans?
- What role do Americans think race should play in college admissions?
- More Republicans than Democrats perceive serious threats from China
- Trump remains the 2024 GOP presidential favorite, especially among voters without a college degree
- A growing share of Republicans disapprove of Trump taking presidential records from the White House
- SCOTUSPoll 2023: Views of landmark rulings in Griswold, Loving, Lawrence, and Obergefell
- How have recent job-market gains shaped American opinions on the economy?
- How Americans feel about 30 card games
- Most Americans think Trump intentionally took classified documents with him after leaving office
- Half of Americans say Dianne Feinstein's health and age severely limit her ability to serve
- Most Americans think schools should teach students to use AI appropriately, rather than banning it
- Which issues do Americans think the national media gives too much and not enough attention to?
- AI doomsday worries many Americans. So does apocalypse from climate change, nukes, war, and more
- Many want the U.S. to do more for Evan Gershkovich — more than said so about Brittney Griner
- Trump's legal battle: How Americans view the case and its political impact
- Trump arrest poll: 56% of Americans approve of the charges, but fewer think a conviction is likely
- On Donald Trump's indictment, do Americans agree with prominent statements — or their opposites?
- Most Americans believe Trump has committed a crime, but far fewer think he'll ever be convicted
- Which issues Americans care about most and how they evaluate their current congressional leaders
- Toilet talk: Polling Americans' potty preferences
- Most Americans support family-friendly policies, including paid leave and child care subsidies
2022 46 articles
- Many Americans say not in my backyard to prisons and homeless shelters
- 100 policies supported by majorities of Democrats and Republicans
- Where Americans stand on issues relating to U.S. elections
- What Americans know — or think they know — about inflation
- Approval of Biden's job performance falls sharply, particularly among economy-minded Democrats
- More Americans strongly disapprove of Trump's handling of the COVID pandemic than of Biden's
- Americans' reactions to Serena Williams's career and tennis legacy
- Americans' concern about monkeypox has increased as U.S. case counts have multiplied
- One in four Americans say inflation is the most important issue for them
- America's favorite ice-cream flavors: vanilla, chocolate, and mint chocolate chip
- Most Americans support government negotiation of drug prices
- Pro-choice Americans lose confidence in the country's direction
- Most voters don’t want Biden to run again in 2024, and a majority say the same about Trump
- Most Americans support the FDA's decision to remove Juul products from U.S. markets
- Post-decision poll: By 50% to 37%, Americans oppose the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade
- Most Americans say the economy is getting worse
- Two in five parents of children under 18 say at least one of their children has contracted COVID-19
- Four in 10 Americans are concerned about monkeypox
- How often do Americans accidentally refer to babies by the wrong gender?
- Who do Americans blame for homelessness?
- Which issues do Americans think should be decided nationally rather than left to the states?
- Putin’s invasion of Ukraine unites Democrats and Republicans against him and Russia
- Six months before the midterms, Republicans are more enthusiastic than Democrats
- How do Americans view the economy when it’s linked to Biden’s name?
- More Americans are testing for COVID-19 at home, and fewer know where else to go for tests
- How do Americans feel about recent proposals to limit classroom discussion on gender and sexuality?
- Concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, and measures to mitigate spread, continue to decline
- Most Americans think Ketanji Brown Jackson will join the Supreme Court
- More Americans now say Ukraine is winning the war than say Russia is
- Americans want to return to normal, but many still avoid some pre-pandemic activities
- Americans are gaining confidence in Ukraine’s chances to defeat Russia and remain independent
- Ketanji Brown Jackson is viewed favorably by more Americans than current Supreme Court justices
- Can the president control gas prices? Answers depend on who you ask and who’s in office
- Americans unite behind Ukraine and Zelensky and against Russia
- Americans reconsider Zelensky, Biden, and Putin as the war in Ukraine rages on
- Do Americans really want a no-fly zone in Ukraine?
- Does naming Trump as the source of statements on Russia affect how Americans feel about them?
- Americans are split on buying a house where the prior owners were murdered
- Americans warm to Zelensky while nearly half call Putin evil
- Half of Americans support sanctioning Russia, even if it leads to big price increases
- COVID-19 behavior and attitudes today look a lot like they did just before Omicron
- Americans oppose both going to war against Russia and conceding to its wishes
- Republicans and Democrats agree crime is rising. They disagree on why
- Democrats say it is important for Biden to nominate a Black woman to replace Breyer
- Nearly half of Americans expect Russia to invade Ukraine
- At-home COVID-19 rapid tests: do Americans trust them?
Links: yougov.com
Yelp, 2017–2021
44 pieces
2021 5 pieces
- Changes in Consumer Interest On Yelp Correlate to Vaccinations, According to the Yelp Economic Average
- Yelp Economic Recovery Report, June 2021
- Q1 Yelp Economic Average Shows Road to Recovery as Local Economies Reopen
- One Year into the Pandemic, Yelp Data Reveals Impact on Local Economies
- Business Openings Recover, Reopenings Rise, and Changes in Consumer Interest Indicate a Return to Pre-Pandemic Activities, According to Yelp Economic Average
2020 10 pieces
- Yelp Economic Average Shows New Restaurant and Food Businesses are Opening, Business Reopenings Rise Across the Country
- Yelp: Local Economic Impact Report
- How businesses have reacted to COVID-19 using Yelp features
- How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Affected Local Businesses Around the Country
- Yelp: Coronavirus Economic Impact Report
- Yelp: Coronavirus Economic Impact Report, April 2
- Yelp: Coronavirus Economic Impact Report, March 27
- Yelp: Coronavirus Economic Impact Report, March 24
- Yelp Local Economy Coronavirus Impact Report: March 20
- Local Economies’ 2019 Slump Looks Likely to Continue, According to the Yelp Economic Average
2019 7 pieces
- California’s Urban Centers are Stagnating, According to the Yelp Economic Average
- Yelp Celebrates 15 Years of Connecting People with Great Local Businesses Through a Look Back at Trends and the Launch of Yelp15.com
- Yelp Economic Average Identifies Five Boomtowns Around The Country, Amid Sluggish Economy
- The Yelp Economic Average Uncovers Possible Ride-sharing Effect
- Yelp’s One-Of-A-Kind Businesses
- Tracking the Yelp Economic Average
- The Yelp Economic Average Uncovers Early Signs of Economic Slowdown
2018 8 pieces
- Chinese food on Christmas: an American tradition
- After the Midterms, Let's All Take a Hike
- Restaurant Ratings On Yelp Are Remarkably Consistent, No Matter Who’s Writing Them, When, And Where
- Yelp’s Local Economic Outlook: Las Vegas Tops The Nation For Business Growth
- From Hawaii to the Heartland: Poke's journey from local favorite to food craze to national staple
- Boba Everywhere
- King Keto
- Yelp’s Local Economic Outlook: American Diners Show Increasing Taste for Independent Restaurants Nationwide
2017 14 pieces
- Immigration Lawyers, Cannabis Clinics and Blood Donation: 12 Months Since the 2016 Election on Yelp
- Yelp’s Local Economic Outlook: Using Data to Track Small Business Opportunity & Economic Health in America
- These 50 Zip Codes Are The Hottest Hipster Markets In America
- Yelp Data Can Help Measure Local Economic Activity
- The Most Locals-Only Restaurants in San Francisco and San Diego
- Yelp Your Doctor — And Look At Other Data, Too
- The Top U.S. Businesses With Gender-Neutral Restrooms
- The Most Requested Beauty Service in Every State
- The Hottest Labor Day Destinations for Yelpers
- The Deadest Downtowns In The U.S.
- The Most Common Words Used in Nursing Home Reviews
- Portland, Oregon: The Do(ugh)nut Capital of the U.S.
- No One Does Mother’s Day Brunch Like Chicago Suburbs Do
- What Makes Yelp’s List Of The Best U.S. Restaurants Different
Links: Yelp's sites and Medium where the piece is still up, otherwise archived copies
FiveThirtyEight, 2014–2017
314 articles
2017 8 articles
- We Converted $100 Into As Many Currencies As Possible
- Tennis Is Growing Old With Federer, Nadal And The Williams Sisters
- How Unconscious Sexism Could Help Explain Trump’s Win
- Novak Djokovic Is Falling Behind In His Quest To Break Roger Federer’s Record
- New Orleans Scales Back Its Extensive, Expensive Bail System
- What We Learned (And Didn’t) About Jeff Sessions At His Confirmation Hearing
- Police Officers Say Scrutiny Of Police Killings Has Made Their Job Tougher
- In New Orleans, Making Defendants Choose Bail Or Jail Is Really Expensive
2016 76 articles
- The Electoral College Has Become Another Partisan Issue
- The Government Finally Has A Realistic Estimate Of Killings By Police
- Fewer Than 1 Million American WWII Veterans Survived To Pearl Harbor’s 75th Anniversary
- A Recount Probably Won’t Change The Winner Of The North Carolina Governor’s Race
- Recounts Rarely Reverse Election Results
- Demographics, Not Hacking, Explain The Election Results
- Trump Is Naming His Cabinet Ahead Of Schedule
- Jeff Sessions And Donald Trump Both Back A Tough Gun Prosecutions Program
- No, Voter Turnout Wasn’t Way Down From 2012
- Voter Turnout Fell, Especially In States That Clinton Won
- The Polls Missed Trump. We Asked Pollsters Why.
- Women’s Progress In Cabinet Positions Has Stalled Since Janet Reno
- How Two Grade-Schoolers Set Off A Tennis Revolution
- Student Forecasters Predict A Clinton Win
- Iowa Shootings Add To Toll In Deadly Year For Police Officers
- White And Nonwhite LGBT People Agree: They Like Clinton And Don’t Like Trump
- First-Grade Teachers Still Favor Boys Over Girls In Math, Research Suggests
- Most Guns Used In New York State Crimes Come From Out Of State
- Top Pollsters Expect Clinton To Win
- People Who Oppose Gay Marriage Are Less Likely To Value Expert Opinion
- Trump Says Profiling Has Protected Israel. It Probably Wouldn’t Work Here.
- Cellphone Emergency Alerts Are Outdated
- Serena Williams Only Loses In Big Upsets Because She’s Always A Big Favorite
- The Faceless Men And Women Of The U.S. Open
- Three Out Of Four Media People Covering The U.S. Open Are Men
- U.S. Open Forecast: Serena Williams Has a 55 Percent Chance To Win
- New Yorkers Will Pay $56 A Month To Trim A Minute Off Their Commute
- How We’re Forecasting The 2016 U.S. Open
- The Ageless Dominance Of Serena Williams And Novak Djokovic
- Winning An Olympic Gold Medal Hasn’t Been This Difficult Since 1896
- Serving Is A Disadvantage In Some Olympic Sports
- The U.S. Women Probably Weren’t Going To Win The Gold Anyway
- Tennis And The Olympics Make An Awkward Match
- Clinton Has Nearly Caught Up To Trump In Media Coverage
- How Uber’s Truce With Regulators Played Out During The DNC
- Roger Federer’s Tough Path To Winning Another Major Just Got Tougher
- Philadelphia Is Bouncing Back From Problems Still Plaguing Cleveland
- Why Are So Many Black Americans Killed By Police?
- 2016 Could Be The Deadliest Year For Terror Attacks Targeting Police Since 1973
- The Mass Shootings Fix
- Instrument Of Terror
- In The Shadow Of Exile
- Gun, Badge, Camera
- Serena Williams Ties Graf’s Majors Record Thanks To A Remarkable Run In Her 30s
- The Dallas Shooting Was Among The Deadliest For Police In U.S. History
- The Police Are Killing People As Often As They Were Before Ferguson
- Sam Querrey Beats Novak Djokovic In A Very Old-Fashioned Upset
- Terrorists Are Turning To Guns More Often In U.S. Attacks
- Most Black People Now Think O.J. Was Guilty
- Novak Djokovic’s Chase Of Tennis Records Is Speeding Up
- U.S. Soccer Fans Click On Manchester United More Than Other, Better Teams
- Roger Federer Will Miss His First Grand Slam In 17 Years
- Some People Are Too Superstitious To Have A Baby On Friday The 13th
- Sitting Presidents Give Way More Commencement Speeches Than They Used To
- How The Republican Field Dwindled From 17 To Donald Trump
- Shakespeare Or Batman? That Is The Question
- The Warriors Dominated The NBA Season Online, Too
- Everyone Has Fake Twitter Followers, But Trump Has The Most. Sad!
- Can DeRay Mckesson Turn 330,000 Twitter Followers Into 20,000 Votes?
- How Losing To The Celtics Changes The Warriors’ Odds Of 73 Wins
- The World’s Most Prolific Twitter User Tweets Mostly About Nothing
- Late NCAA Bracket Submissions Show We’re A Nation Of Procrastinators
- San Jose Is The Most Forgettable Major American City
- Why The Polls Missed Bernie Sanders’s Michigan Upset
- Republicans Liked Ben Carson To The End (But Not Enough To Vote For Him)
- Lots Of Parents Don’t Want Their Kids To Be Born On Leap Day
- Are You More Likely To Vote For A Woman Or A Man?
- Donald Trump Is Losing Ground On Google
- Iowa Teaches Pollsters To Poll Until The End
- The Tennis Court Is A Laboratory For Innovation
- You’d Have To Be Pretty Dumb To Fix A Tennis Match This Week
- Were There 6 Percent More Murders Last Year, Or 16 Percent?
- Why Betting Data Alone Can’t Identify Match Fixers In Tennis
- The Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages Over The Last 15 Years
- How To Make Sense Of Conflicting, Confusing And Misleading Crime Statistics
- Most Americans Agree With Obama That More Gun Buyers Should Get Background Checks
2015 86 articles
- Serena Williams Had A Remarkable Year. Novak Djokovic’s Was Better.
- Most Pollsters Say Their Reputations Have Worsened
- People Want News About Iran, But The News They Get Is About Canada
- The Warriors Are The Hottest Ticket In Every Town
- Ultimate Frisbee Is In The Dark Ages Of Analytics — And It Wants To Escape
- Shocker: Trump Tweets The Polls That Make Him Look Most Like A Winner
- Is Uber Making NYC Rush-Hour Traffic Worse?
- Mass Shootings Have Become More Common In The U.S.
- A Chicago Cop Is The Latest To Be Charged Using Video Evidence
- Americans Love France
- Governors Who Want To Ban Syrian Refugees Have Something In Common
- The Rise Of Terrorism Inspired By Religion In France
- The Gold Gloves Are Finally Going To The Best Fielders
- Everyone’s Still Chasing The Yankees And Red Sox On Facebook And Twitter
- 2015-16 NBA Preview: The Hornets Coulda Been A Contender
- 2015-16 NBA Preview: The Grizzlies Will Remain Good, Not Great
- 2015-16 NBA Preview: The Raptors Are Lucky They Play In An Awful Division
- Uber Is Taking Millions Of Manhattan Rides Away From Taxis
- The Senate’s Criminal Justice Bill Would Lengthen Some Sentences — But Reduce Far More
- The Hard-Line Republicans Who Pushed John Boehner Out
- Djokovic And Federer Are Vying To Be The Greatest Of All Time
- Scare Headlines Exaggerated The U.S. Crime Wave
- Roberta Vinci’s Upset Of Serena Williams Is The Biggest In Modern Women’s Tennis History
- Serena Williams Is Getting A Raw Deal By Only Playing Best Of Three Sets
- Serena Williams And The Difference Between All-Time Great And Greatest Of All Time
- We Still Don’t Know How Many People Died Because Of Katrina
- Uber Is Serving New York’s Outer Boroughs More Than Taxis Are
- Anti-Gay Feeling Is High In Many African Countries Amid Obama Visit
- The Debate On Uber’s Impact In New York City Is Far From Over
- Nielsen’s Testing Hasn’t Resolved The Radio Ratings Debate
- Greece Hopes Foreign Tourists Will Help Pay Its Debts
- Even Pretending To Be A Professional Tennis Player Is Terrifying
- Women Get Equal Pay, But Not Equal Billing, At Wimbledon
- Did Nielsen Kill The Radio Star?
- Why De Blasio’s Decision To Add NYPD Officers Could Cut Crime
- The Charleston Shooter Struck The Heart Of The African-American South
- What We Know About Hate Crimes In South Carolina
- Why Some Tennis Matches Take Forever
- Live Blog: Novak Djokovic vs. Rafael Nadal At The French Open
- How Your Tennis Stats Get Made
- How FIFA’s Structure Lends Itself To Corruption
- Rafael Nadal Is 80 Percent Of What He Used To Be
- As A Major Retraction Shows, We’re All Vulnerable To Faked Data
- The Biggest U.S. Police Departments Are Getting Smaller
- SurveyMonkey Was The Other Winner Of The U.K. Election
- Think You Know Who Will Win The U.K. Election? Want To Bet?
- Police Killings Almost Never Lead To Murder Charges
- Dangerous Times For The World’s Cultural Heritage
- Baltimore’s Police Officers Have Been Arrested At High Rates
- USGS Model Suggests The Nepal Earthquake Death Toll Will Keep Climbing
- The Counterterrorism Expo With Very Little ‘Counter’ And No ‘Terror’
- An Ex-Cop Keeps The Country’s Best Data Set On Police Misconduct
- Better Data Entry Could Help Stop Rapists Like Darren Sharper Before They Assault More Women
- Blacks Are Killed By Police At A Higher Rate In South Carolina And The U.S.
- UConn Has Been Slightly Less Dominant In The Tournament Than It Was All Season
- The Billionaire Baron Who Has Transformed How We Understand The U.K. Election
- The Latest Kentucky Riot Is Part Of A Long, Destructive Sports Tradition
- A Shot-Clock-By-Shot-Clock Guide To Duke vs. Wisconsin
- UConn And Notre Dame Could Renew The Best Rivalry In Women’s Basketball In Tampa
- This Year’s Kentucky Team Is More Dominant Than Indiana’s Undefeated 1976 Squad
- That Higher Count Of Police Killings May Still Be 25 Percent Too Low
- Gonzaga Women Earn Still More Chances To Play Close To Home
- We Don’t Know How Often Pilots Commit Suicide
- New Zealand, The Little Nation That Could Win Two World Cups
- South Florida Is Lucky To Host Its Toss-Up Matchup With Louisville
- Villanova’s Loss Is Kentucky’s (And Virginia’s) Gain
- Most Of UConn’s Games This Season Were Over At Halftime
- Davidson Basketball’s Sixth Man: The Math Department
- Home Is Where The Hot March Madness Tickets Are
- How Israel’s Exit Pollsters Missed Right-Wing Rally For Netanyahu
- Why Israel’s Election Is Too Close To Call
- Bayern Munich’s Head Of Analytics Tells Us How Pep Guardiola Has Embraced Stats
- Princeton Enters Women’s Tournament As An Unusual Sort Of Undefeated Team
- A New Estimate Of Killings By Police Is Way Higher — And Still Too Low
- Most Americans And Israelis Get Along Better Than Obama And Netanyahu Do
- Rest Easy, Bob Knight: Kentucky Probably Won’t Finish Undefeated
- The Silly Way Coaches’ Wins Are Counted
- Other Countries Are So Much Better At Vaccinating Their Kids For Measles
- LeBron May Know Best About When The New-Look Cavs Have Gelled
- Late 20s Are The New Early 20s For Tennis Breakthroughs
- People Working From Home In A Snowstorm May Be Producing More Than You Are
- 70 Years Later, We’re Still Trying To Learn Who Died In The Holocaust
- Federer Is No Longer Mr. Consistency After Australian Open Loss
- Home Players Enjoy Luck Of The Draw At Australian Open
- A Historical Look At The Immigration Of French Jews To Israel
- Downed AirAsia Flight Took Off From The Worst Major Country For Air Safety Oversight
2014 144 articles
- The Biggest Stories Of 2014? Now, Wait Just A Minute
- Tennis Has An Income Inequality Problem
- A Deadly 2014 For Air Travel Has Reversed Recent Safety Gains
- NFL Teams Are Analyzing Everything From The Salary Cap To Fan Loyalty
- The Superfans Using Stats To Get To The Bottom Of ‘Serial’
- These Authors Know The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Backstory Better Than George R.R. Martin Does
- Cuban Players Already Have Been Gaining Ground In MLB
- Taliban Attack At Pakistan School Sets Back Modest Progress Against Terrorism
- Federer, Djokovic Set To Play For First Time In A Tennis Hotbed: India
- Bill Cosby’s Fall From Among The Most-Trusted Celebrities To The Least
- The Revolution In Tennis Stats That Didn’t Stick
- By Playing Hurt, Federer Shows That The Davis Cup Still Matters
- Can Roger Federer Finally Win A Davis Cup?
- U.K. Report Is Latest Evidence That Crime Stats Heavily Undercount Rape
- More On Bill Cosby’s History Of Mentioning ‘Spanish Fly’
- Why We Don’t Know The Real Ebola Mortality Rate In The U.S.
- The Greatest Rivalry In Men’s Pro Tennis History Is Happening Now
- The Elders Of Men’s Tennis Hold Off Youngsters At ATP World Tour Finals
- The Divide Between Republican And Democratic Voters On Major Issues
- Most Pollsters We Surveyed Say Polling Did Well This Year
- Several Pollsters Say Polls Did Well On Election Day
- Preliminary Turnout Numbers Are Way Down From 2010 And 2012
- Some Do’s And Don’t’s For Evaluating Senate Forecasts
- Americans Overestimate The Number of Muslims And Teen Moms, But Not By As Much As Reported
- Even Pollsters Don’t Know All The Details Of How Their Polls Are Made
- Is 21 Days Long Enough For Ebola Quarantine?
- Estimates Of Ebola-Infected Air Passengers Include Big Assumptions
- Pollsters Say They Follow Ethical Standards, But They Aren’t So Sure About Their Peers
- Catholics Are More Progressive Than The Vatican, And Almost Everyone Else
- An Important Indicator In The Fight Against Ebola
- We Still Can’t Predict Earthquakes
- What We Know About Sexual Assault in College — And What We Don’t
- Pollsters Predict Greater Polling Error In Midterm Elections
- Can David Goffin Keep Winning?
- Have Ray Rice And Roger Goodell Hurt NFL Ratings?
- We’ll Probably Never Know If The CDC’s Grim Ebola Forecast Was Accurate
- A Statistical Appreciation Of Li Na
- Why Pollsters Think They Underestimated ‘No’ In Scotland
- Scottish Regions’ View On Self-Governance Hasn’t Changed Much Since 1997
- Why Counts Of Islamic State Fighters Are So Uncertain
- A Rough Guide To Watching The Scottish Independence Vote
- On Policy, Scotland Is Far From Most of Britain, But Not London
- The 42 Countries That Agree On Islamic State And Little Else
- Tennis Has A Big Three-And-A-Half
- It’s Not The End Of An Era For Men’s Tennis
- For Years, The Road To Grand Slam Greatness Ran Through Mario Ancic
- As U.S. Tennis Power Fell, Spanish Men And Czech Women Were Rising
- Why Tennis Players Don’t Take More Risks On Second Serves
- San Francisco Stalls In Its Attempt To Go Trash-Free
- If Tony Survived The ‘Sopranos’ Finale, He’s Probably Alive Today
- 2014 NFL Preview: The AFC North Is Up For Grabs
- U.S. Women Are Stronger In The Tennis World Than U.S. Men
- Why The Napa Earthquake Damage Alerts Keep Changing
- One Record That Federer’s Chasing Doesn’t Really Count
- Recent Breakthroughs In Women’s Tennis Have Yet To Stick
- Why It Took So Long To Update the U.N.-Sponsored Syria Death Count
- Is Global Instability Making Urban Life Tougher?
- Police In England And Wales Went Two Years Without Fatally Shooting Someone
- How Rafael Nadal’s Absence From the U.S. Open Helps Roger Federer
- Thousands Of Pictures Are Worth The World
- Geograph's Quixotic Effort To Get Photos Of Every Square Kilometer Of Great Britain And Ireland
- The Difficult Work Of Measuring Anti-Semitism In Europe
- When A Flight Vanishes From The Sky, Amateur Trackers Know It Instantly
- We Still Don’t Know How Deadly the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Will Be
- Walking the Data-Driven Scenic Route in London
- The Low-Scoring World Cup Final Might Not Be Here to Stay
- World Cup Third-Place Match Crib Notes: Brazil vs. Netherlands
- World Cup Shooters Keep Misfiring From Long-Range
- U.S. vs. Belgium Was the Best Match of the World Cup So Far
- World Cup Semifinal Crib Notes: Netherlands vs. Argentina
- Wimbledon Champion Novak Djokovic Just Bested His Coach, Boris Becker
- Wimbledon Is Very Forgiving of Players’ Errors
- Statkeepers Call the Shots, But They Can’t Agree on Them
- Get Off My Tennis Lawn!
- Federer Rediscovers an Old Tactic at Wimbledon
- Does Tennis Need a Shot Clock?
- World Cup Crib Notes: Day 19
- Stoppage Time Is Often Home-Cooked, Especially in Major League Soccer
- World Cup Crib Notes: Day 17
- John Isner Is All Alone at Wimbledon
- World Cup Crib Notes: Day 14
- Was the U.S. Robbed Against Portugal? It Depends on What Time Means
- An Oddity of Tennis Scoring Makes Its Annual Appearance at Wimbledon
- These Players Crash the Wimbledon Party the Hard Way
- At Wimbledon, Ryan Harrison Suffers Again From His Bad Luck of the Draw
- World Cup Crib Notes: Day 11
- World Cup Crib Notes: Day 8
- U.S. Soccer Fandom: The Investigation Continues
- World Cup Crib Notes: Day 2
- World Cup Crib Notes: Day 1
- The People Tracking Every Touch, Pass And Tackle in the World Cup
- What If Rafael Nadal Had Never Won a Grand Slam Title?
- Nadal Isn’t What He Used to Be on Clay, But He’s Still Good Enough to Win the French Open
- The Challenge of Counting D-Day’s Dead
- The West is Better Than the East, But That Doesn’t Mean the Spurs Will Beat the Heat
- Inside the Shadowy World of High-Speed Tennis Betting
- How Tennis Officials Are Trying to Make the Game Fair
- Ukraine’s Population Challenge
- What Speed Typing Has to Do With NBA History
- This Man Has Worked For the NBA For the League’s Entire History
- Meet the Man Who Preserved Decades of NBA History
- More People Are Running; Fewer Are Playing Bar Sports
- NFL Teams Increasingly Hang on to Their Star Draftees
- Why 2014’s NFL Draft Picks Should Hope Next Year’s Picks Are Bad
- Why the Best Scoring Margin Doesn’t Guarantee a Championship in European Soccer
- Has the AL East Just Been Unlucky?
- The Students Most Likely to Take Our Jobs
- Even the Head Chef of the World’s Best Restaurant Doubts There’s a World’s Best Restaurant
- Give Us a Straight Answer, America: How Do You Really Feel About Soccer?
- To Gauge Americans’ Interest in the World Cup, Ask Some People in Spanish
- Mark Buehrle Is a One-Man Baseball-Game Accelerator
- Suddenly, Anyone Can Beat Rafael Nadal on Clay
- Is the DH Rule Slowing the Game Down?
- Under Moyes, Manchester United Wasn’t Particularly Good — Or Lucky
- Pace Is the Most Consistent Pitching Stat
- I Don’t Care If I Ever Get Back — And I Might Not
- Djokovic Makes a Run at No. 1
- Where Is Ukraine’s Next Crimea?
- Sam Houston State’s Scorer: ‘We Reward Good Team Play’
- Both the Heat and the Pacers Have Time to Rebound
- The Best College Basketball Program of All Time
- John Calipari Has Seen a Lot of Bricks at the Free-Throw Line
- UConn’s Not-So-Secret Weapon
- College Basketball’s Problem Isn’t Endless Nail-Biters — It’s Long Blowouts
- It’s Easier to Get Assists in Huntsville, Texas, Than Anywhere Else
- President Obama’s Brackets: Apolitical, Cautious And Full of Chalk
- Tennessee’s Strange Path to Sweet 16 Suggests It’s a Big Threat to Michigan
- NLRB Ruling Reignites College-Athlete Pay Debate
- Even If They Don’t Win Tonight, the 76ers Are Getting Better
- There’s No Place Like Home For John Isner
- Louisville Should’ve Been a No. 1 Seed, But It Might Play Like a No. 9
- Dayton Does Matter
- A March Madness Bracket For Stat-Heads
- Buffett’s Billion Won’t Lead to a Perfect Bracket
- You Just Had Sex, So How Many Calories Did You Burn?
- Wichita State’s Strength of Schedule Isn’t the Problem
- Tracking Health One Step (And Clap, And Wave, And Fist Pump) at a Time
- Many Signs Pointed to Crimea Independence Vote — But Polls Didn’t
- How Statisticians Could Help Find That Missing Plane
- Another Explanation For Crimea Referendum Landslide
- Reviewing the Peer-Review Process
- The Odds of Getting off the Elevator First
- A Suspicious Immigration Statistic
- When It Comes To Exercise, Don’t Trust. Verify.
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Wall Street Journal: The Numbers Guy columns, 2005–2013
334 columns
2013 38 columns
- Data on Americans' Diet Can Be Hard to Digest
- Calculating Shift to What May Really Be 1.5-Child Policy
- Public Cost of Fast-Food Industry's Low Pay Remains Unclear
- In Accounting for Slavery's Cost, Figures Vary Widely
- Political Polarization at Its Peak? Not All Agree
- Date of Any U.S. Debt Default Is Difficult to Determine
- Costs of a Government Shutdown Are Unclear
- Health-Exchange Prognosis: Unclear
- New Way of Calculating Poverty Rate Faces Hurdles
- Stats out of Syria Clouded by Chaos of War
- Death Tolls From Summer Heat Waves Are Hazy
- Rank and Rile: Why Some Lists Prove Irksome
- Detroit Police Response Times No Guide to Effectiveness
- Museums Make a Poor Show of Projecting Visitor Counts
- The Royal Male? It's the Best Bet for Delivery
- Projections for Athletes' Earnings Involve High Level of Guesswork
- Dishing the Dirt on Hand-Washing Guidelines
- In Reckoning a Law's Cost, Final Score Unclear
- Media Freedom Hard to Capture
- Ethics Aside, Is NSA's Spy Tool Efficient?
- A Census Chief to Be Counted On
- Will This Bridge Fall? It's Hard to Say
- Health Data That May Leave You of Two Minds
- A Victim-Fund Chief's Critical Calculations
- For Gays, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do—or Measure
- Island Where Obesity May Not Be All It Seems
- Studios Struggle for Focus on Film Pirates' Booty
- Smaller Size? No Thanks to This Pledge
- Gun Counts Can Be Hit-or-Miss
- Rankings That May Give You Little to Chew On
- No Easy Lessons in Assessing Preschool Payoff
- Seeking a Survivor for a Lifetime Appointment
- Useful Cost-of-Living Data Don't Come Cheap
- Hard to Put Red-Light Violations Under a Lens
- Some Percentages Are Just Fair-Weather Friends
- Putting Statistics to Work in a Land of Illusions
- A Good Way to Measure Obesity? Fat Chance
- Don't Let Math Pull the Wool Over Your Eyes
2012 40 columns
- Statistical Habits to Add, or Subtract, in 2013
- Measuring How Births Swell the Population Isn't Child's Play
- Counting Snowbirds as They Fly
- Accurate Death Toll a Casualty in Gaza
- Fuel Rationing Is Hard to Gauge
- It's Hard to Get a Reading on Size of Outages
- On the Big Night, Forecasters Strain to Make Correct Call
- Economists' Goal: A Measure for All Seasons
- Impact of States' Voter Laws Can Be Difficult to Identify
- Tracking Religious Trends Takes a Leap of Faith
- Shifting Party Allegiances Are Tricky for Pollsters
- Voters' Tweet Volume Might Just Be Noise
- Sought: Voters With Real Power
- Why Surveys Should Pay Attention to Prisoners
- Voter Fraud: Hard to Identify
- Pregnancies From Rape Prove Tough to Count
- Timing an Urban Stroll Isn't a Walk in the Park
- Removing Judges' Bias Is Olympic-Size Challenge
- Don't Blame Sitting—Yet—for Shorter Lives of the Sedentary
- How to Be Sure You've Found a Higgs Boson
- Sports Results That Leave Final Score Unclear
- Long Medical Waits Prove Hard to Cure
- Cost of Losing Athens Can't Be Calculated
- Steps Unclear in Builders' Race to Top
- Border Delay Data Leave Fliers Up in the Air
- All Heat, No Light, in Fire Data
- Cruise-Ship Safety Is Tough to Track
- In the Forecast: A Better Way to Measure the Temperature
- Census Gets Questions on Mandatory Queries
- When Risk Is a Red-Meat Issue
- Job Prospects for Law Grads? The Jury's Out
- Measuring Metric's Limits in the Grocery Aisle
- Death Gets in the Way of Old-Age Gains
- A Hollow Target for Greek Debt
- Tweets as Poll Data? Be Careful
- Breast-Implant Risk Is Still an Open Question
- Fuzzy Facts Can Make Crime Rankings Suspect
- New Study Tallies Private Equity's Jobs Role
- Plot Thickens on Oscar Ballot
- Americans Stumble on Math of Big Issues
2011 45 columns
- When Testing for Cocaine Usage, Don't Follow the Money
- Using Stats to Scare Up Support
- Internet Providers Hit a Speed Trap
- Survey Says: Cellphones Annoy Pollsters
- The Deal on Those Wildly High Price Tags
- College Does Pay Off, but It's No Free Ride
- Income Ladder's Sticky Steps
- Global Temperatures: All Over the Map
- How Do You Get to 7 Billion People?
- Sizing Up the Small-Business Jobs Machine
- Even With Millions Typing Away, Aping Shakespeare Ain't Easy
- A Different Spin on the Dangers of Urban Cycling
- A Sack Standoff in the Checkout Aisle
- Shadowy Figure: Al Qaeda's Size Is Hard to Measure
- Computers Can See You—If You Have a Mug Shot
- Few Precedents to Help Predict Damage
- Technology Can't Save Us From Math Mishaps
- Global Market Cap: Trillions in Losses, but No Firm Tally
- The Challenge of Drawing the Line on a Famine
- Why Measure a Mountain? Because It's There
- Easy-to-Guess Passwords Open Door to Hackers
- In This Dating Game, the Best Match Could Be Years Away
- As Shuttle Sails Through Space, Costs Are Tough to Pin Down
- Publicists Pump Up Value of Buzz; Don't Believe the Hype
- With Arresting Numbers, Context Can Be Everything
- USDA's Food Plate: Looks Great, Less Filling
- In This Popularity Contest, Cities Score Themselves
- When Median Doesn't Mean What It Seems
- Latest Issue on the Ballot: How to Hold a Vote
- Matching Science of DNA With Art of Identification
- What's a Wedding Without a Fight Over Money?
- Who Makes the Call at the Mall, Men or Women?
- Reliable Tally of Gay Population Proves Elusive
- Making a Stat Less Significant
- Radiation Math: How Do We Count the Rays?
- Irreconcilable Claim: Facebook Causes 1 in 5 Divorces
- Pollsters Struggle for Accurate Picture of Mideast
- Behind the Information Overload Hype
- Energy-Assistance Funds Rely on Out-of-Date Stats
- With Fast Food, It's Tough to Sort the Beef From the Chaff
- Sizing Up Crowds Pushes Limits of Technology
- Small Business Regulatory 'Burden' Is Tough to Quantify
- College Test Leaves Questions Unanswered
- Who Is Mentally Ill? It's Hard to Say
- Housing Statistics Hit Rough Waters
2010 45 columns
- Health Studies Cited for Transplant Cuts Put Under the Knife
- Wi-Fi Threat to Trees Rooted in Shaky Stats
- In Crime Lists, Nuance Is a Victim
- Studies That Grade Charter Schools Rely on Imperfect Math
- Redistricting Hype Blurs Reality
- The Pitfalls of Calculating Bad Behavior's True Cost
- Flawed Math Seen in Unemployment Tied to China
- In a Divisive Election, Consensus Eludes Forecasters, Too
- Where Infrastructure Estimates Come Up Short
- Research Into Human Sexuality Leaves a Lot to Be Desired
- Report Cards for Consumers Don't Always Make the Grade
- Counterfeit Drug Count Is Tough to Swallow
- The Inconvenient Truth About Traffic Math: Progress Is Slow
- Needs Improvement: Where Teacher Report Cards Fall Short
- Estimates of Religious Populations Require a Bit of Faith
- Online Polling, Once Easily Dismissed, Burnishes Its Image
- Making It Count: Alternative Ways to Gather Census Data
- Scientists Seek to Tabulate Mysteries of the Aged
- When Comparisons Collide With Careful Thinking
- Hidden Formulas Send Mixed Signals on Cellphones
- When It Comes to Spills, Size Counts, but Is Often Elusive
- Suspect Estimates of Sex Trafficking at the World Cup
- Near Misses Are a Hit in Disaster Science
- Estimates of Economic Effects Hit Wide of the Mark
- Static in Cellphone Study
- Oil Spill May Be Still Bigger
- Burned in the Past, Storm Forecasters Aim to Tread Carefully
- Cloudy With a Chance of Danger: Airplane vs. Ash
- Reading, Writing and...Statistics
- Are You W.S.J.? Is That Why You're Reading This?
- In Counting Illegal Immigrants, Certain Assumptions Apply
- One Top-10 List's Leader Is Another's Also-Ran
- Effects of Smokeless Tobacco Products Overblown
- It Is 90% Certain That Unemployment Rose. Or Fell.
- Not All Differences in Earnings Are Created Equal
- New Studies Eat Into Diet Math
- Sleuths Trace Digital Clues to Predict iPad Sales
- In Disaster's Wake, Hurried Claims
- Lights, Camera, Calculator! The New Celebrity Math
- Dot-Complicated: Measuring Traffic on the Web
- Census Bureau Obscured Personal Data -- Too Well, Some Say
- What It Takes for a Movie to Be No. 1
- Swine Flu Count Plagued by Flawed Data
- A Snowfall That Almost Amounted to a Windfall
- Misreading the Green: Study of Tiger's Toll Misses
2009 37 columns
- The Drag of Devising a State-by-State Mirth Meter
- Kills 99.9% of Germs -- Under Some Lab Conditions
- The Imprecision Behind Mammogram Guidance
- Claims of Thanksgiving Excess Fueled by Feast of Fuzzy Data
- Data on Arrest Records Aren't Always by the Book
- Statistical Time Travel Helps to Answer What-Ifs
- Number-Crushing: When Figures Get Personal
- Ill-Conceived Ranking Makes for Unhealthy Debate
- New Research on Spanking Might Need a Time Out
- Some See Numerical Oddity in Pollster's Election Surveys
- Odds Are, Stunning Coincidences Can Be Expected
- To Count New Stimulus Jobs, Help Really Wanted
- Bleak Cancer Reports Mask Major Advances
- New Vehicles Leave MPG Standard Behind
- Forecast: Next Year Will Arrive in 2010-ish
- Marriage-Maker Claims Are Tied in Knots
- The Slimming Figures of Childhood Obesity
- Spun: The Off-the-Wall Accounting of Record Sales
- Calorie Disclosures Fail to Weigh Whole Enchilada
- Rise and Flaw of Internet's Election-Fraud Hunters
- The Unhealthy Accounting of Uninsured Americans
- Drunk Driver Data Don't Walk Straight Line Either
- This U.K. Sheriff Cites Officials for Serious Statistical Violations
- To Gauge Oil Savings, Economists Road Test the 'Rebound Effect'
- Look at This Article. It's One of Our Most Popular
- When Really Big Numbers Aren't Nearly Enough
- For Early Hurricane Forecasts, Consult a Telepath
- Facebook Users -- and Research -- Need Further Study
- Which Is Epidemic -- Sexting or Worrying About It?
- How Big Is That Widening Gyre of Floating Plastic?
- Price Drop: Stocks, Homes, Now Triple-Word Scores
- In Ads, 1 Out of 5 Stats Is Bogus*
- The Odds When Birds, Subs and Satellites Collide
- What's in a Wall Street Bonus Figure? Not Accuracy
- And the Oscar Goes to...Not Its Voting System
- Let's Rate the Ranking Systems of Film Reviews
- The Madness of Estimating Crowds and Commodes
2008 22 columns
- Charity Rankings Giveth Less Than Meets the Eye
- What's in a Name? More and More, a Number
- Only One Person Knows a Home's Value: Its Buyer
- Polls Foresaw Future, Which Looks Tough for Polling
- My So-Called Life Span: Expectancy Calculators Falter
- Out of Left Field: The Errors In Counting Black Ballplayers
- Oy, a Potential Electoral Mess
- Making Every Word Count
- The Seven-Year Glitch
- Obesity Study Looks Thin
- Press 1 for McCain, 2 for Obama
- Trying to Track Mortgage Mess
- A Very Inexact Science
- Death Tolls Can Be Distracting
- Polls to Assess Drunk Driving Have Blind Spot
- Bad Math = Mad Politics
- Living to 100 May Be Easier Than Counting Those Who've Made It
- Numbers Show China Beats U.S. in Net Use, But Which Numbers?
- Voters Flock to Polls, But Are They Really Reversing a Trend?
- Election Handicappers Are Using Risky Tool: Mixed Poll Averages
- Cellphone Numbers Just Don't Add Much To Political Polling
- How Much Water Goes Into a Burger? Studies Find Different Answers
2007 30 columns
- What Topics Filled (Clean) Minds in '07? For One: an Asterisk
- Is a Carl Doomed To Be a C Student? We Don't Think So
- Sorry, You May Have Gone Over Your Limit Of Network Friends
- Longer Daylight Time May Save Energy -- But Stats Are Stale
- Efforts to Quantify Sales of Pirated Goods Lead to Fuzzy Figures
- '16 Holes-in-One;' Few Eyewitnesses
- Understanding How A Current Kids' Flick Can Beat Out de Sica
- Keeping the Debate In Politics to This Side Of 'Pants on Fire'
- How Policy Makers Use Number Analyses To Turn Our Heads
- Weddings Are Not The Budget Drains Some Surveys Suggest
- Too Many Studies Use College Students As Their Guinea Pigs
- It's Tough Using Data To Blow the Whistle On Fixing Games
- In Satellite vs. Cable, The Battle Over HD Is Baffling Consumers
- Countdown Clocks Offer a Lot of Drama But Little Information
- It Seems to Exist, But How to Measure Class Gap in Reading?
- Flaws in Measuring The World's Poor May Hinder Solutions
- Just How Amazing Is Jacqueline Gagne -- And Her 10 Golf Aces?
- Figuring the Impact Of Allowing Felons In Florida to Vote
- Both Sides in Gun Debate Push Dubious Data
- I'll Take 'Probability' For $2,400, Alex: Odds of Three-Way Tie
- A Few Sales Tricks Can Launch a Book To Top of Online Lists
- Odds of 'Lost Tomb' Being Jesus' Family Rest on Assumptions
- Coming Soon: 'The Number 24'
- Farm Group Touts Cheap Food, But Uses Some Murky Math
- Nielsen's New College Numbers
- Coke Dangles Big Prizes for Customers With Lots of Time (and Soda) at Hand
- Winning a Longer Life
- Taking Another Look At Murder Statistics
- EPA Improves Its Mileage Estimates, But Stats Still Don't Tell the Whole Story
- Counting Internet Users Remains a Guessing Game
2006 38 columns
- A Research Report on iTunes Sales Becomes Shot Heard 'Round the Net
- How Big An Internet Star Was the 'Star Wars' Kid?
- Relatively Small Number of Deaths Have Big Impact in Pfizer Drug Trial
- How Many Kids Have Autism?
- Grading the Pollsters
- McDonald's Monopoly Contest Dangles Big Prize With Long Odds
- Football Announcers Clock the Speed Of Quarterback Passes, Baseball Style
- Baseball Fans Use Decades of Stats To Second Guess Coaching Calls
- Trying to Herd a Cat Stat
- A Closer Look at Sports Miracles
- How Random Is the iPod's Shuffle?
- Grading Weather Forecasts
- Ranking of 'Drunkest Cities' Wouldn't Pass a Sobriety Test
- Rethinking the Solar System
- Group Fighting Online Liquor Sales Serves Up a Questionable Stat on Kids
- More on the Landis Controversy
- Floyd Landis's Alcohol Defense
- Why Executives Speak Out
- Putting a Number on Happiness
- Studies on Medical Errors Warrant a Second Opinion
- Lightning Stats Are Partly Cloudy
- Digging Into the Ethanol Debate
- Watching the Pollsters
- The Box-Office Code
- Should Mom's Pay Be $134,121?
- Measuring Chernobyl's Fallout
- Measuring the Child-Porn Trade
- Fuzzy Math on Illegal Immigration
- When a Billion Isn't a Billion
- Picking the Perfect NCAA Bracket
- A Bad Meth Stat Lingers On
- Ambitious Homeless Count Fills A Void, but Has Its Limitations
- The Limits of Exit Polls
- Sometimes in Polling, It's All in the Question
- The Results Are In
- Monitoring the Numbers in the News
- The Plight of the Family Farmer
- Evaluating Political Pundits
2005 39 columns
- The Numbers Behind the Transit Strike
- How to Split a Shared Cab Ride? Very Carefully, Say Economists
- Holiday Sales Numbers Don't Add Up
- Ranking of 'Smart' States Doesn't Get Passing Grade
- Lessons From the 1918 Flu
- Sounding the Alarm With a Fuzzy Stat
- The Link Between Dinner and Drugs
- Crunching Baseball's Numbers
- Estimates for Web Search Results Are Often Wildly Off the Mark
- Coming to Grips With a Grim Count
- Outsourcing Fears Help Inflate Some Numbers
- Just How Big Is 600 Trillion?
- Counting the Civilian Dead in Iraq
- Avocados, Gorillas and Other Favorites
- When It Comes to TV Stats, Viewer Discretion Is Advised
- A Simulation of Sept. 11 Shows Many Details Remain Unknown
- Pondering the Chances Of a Nuclear Attack
- A Korean War Stat Lingers Long After It Was Corrected
- How Much Is It Really Costing To Comply With Sarbanes-Oxley?
- In Hurricane Forecasting, Science Is Far From Exact
- Measuring the Impact of Blogs Requires More Than Counting
- Killings From 90 Years Ago Haunt Turkey in its EU Bid
- Is the Conventional Wisdom Correct In Measuring Hip-Hop Audience?
- Debate Over Gay Foster Parents Shines Light on a Dubious Stat
- Retirement Is Long Overdue For Some Aging Statistics
- Fuzzy Math With Salary Calculators
- Small Change by U.S. News Leads To New Controversy in Rankings
- When Considering Surveys On Business, Follow the Money
- Both Sides Massage the Data In the Debate Over ANWR
- Is the 'Truth' Campaign Being Truthful in Its Stats?
- A Look at the Globe, 45 Years Out
- From Waffle Irons to Eating Habits, Researcher NPD Has Your Number
- Heartbreak of Hockey Fans Aside, Canada's Economy Will Survive
- When It Comes to Donations, Polls Don't Tell the Whole Story
- Super Bowl Productivity Update
- Football Fans Likely Don't Know League's Most-Coveted Stats
- A Survey Probes the Back Seats Of Taxis, With Dubious Results
- Online Warnings Mean Well, But the Numbers Don't Add Up
- Just How Deadly Is Bird Flu? It Depends on Whom You Ask
Links: wsj.com, plus archived copies
The Numbers Guy blog, 2007–2013
688 posts
2013 44 posts
- What Family Dinners Can and Can’t Do for Teens
- Food Photos With a Purpose: Diet Data
- China’s New Child Policy Leaves Many Questions
- Sports Make Final Call on Technology
- Is Fast Food Bad Value for the Public?
- The Slavery Reparations Calculations
- A House — and Senate — Divided
- Timing Debt Deadlines
- Government Shutdown’s Price Tag
- How Will the New Health-Care Exchanges Do?
- Seeking a Poverty Measure for the Next 50 Years
- The Numbers Behind the Syria Debate
- Rape: the Darkest Dark Figure of Crime
- The Challenge of Counting Heat-Wave Deaths
- Urban Umbrage
- Giving No Time to Misleading Police Stats
- Baby Bets: Boy or Girl?
- How Much Is One Tennis Match Worth?
- Does It Take 20 Seconds to Wash Hands?
- What We Don’t Know About Immigration Bill’s Impact
- Seeking Meaning in Jailed-Journalists Count
- Do the Numbers Behind Prism Add Up?
- Census Nominee’s Full Plate
- No Shortcuts in Measuring Bridge Safety
- Seeking Order in Disorder Data
- Tough Math of Victim Funds
- Same-Sex Divorce Stats Lag
- The Cost of Terror
- The Math Errors That Slip Through the Crack
- One Size May Not Fit All in Obesity Definition
- Putting a Price Tag on Film Piracy
- Calorie Cutters
- Guns Present Polling Conundrum
- The World’s Best Bites
- Economists Study Early Education
- The Upbeat Stats on Statistics
- The Oscars Number Crunchers
- Lifespan Math
- Ranking the World’s Priciest Cities
- Seeing Red
- Picturing Percentages
- Statistical Diplomacy in North Korea
- A BMI Referendum
- Awed by Equations
2012 44 posts
- Tips for a Statistically Savvy 2013
- Seeking Statistical New Year’s Resolutions
- Fertility Figures
- Counting the Seasonal Surges
- The Human Toll of Mideast Violence
- Does Odd-Even Rationing Work?
- What Fuels the Power-Outage Numbers?
- How the Election Will Be Called
- Seasonal Drift
- The Voter-ID Election
- The Boom in Religious Research
- Polling Party
- Timing Twitter
- The Deciders
- Prison Polling
- Counting Voter Fraud
- Why Counting Rapes Is So Tough
- The Economic Oomph From Big Events
- The Last Olympics Event
- Olympic Walking Events
- The Serious Task of Judging Games
- Sitting in Judgment of Sitting
- The Particle Proof
- Keeping Score in the Browser Wars
- The Parental Price Tag
- Figuring Out Sports Participation
- Waiting for Comprehensive Waiting-Time Stats
- Exit Costs
- The Waiting Game
- The Fire Countdown Clock
- Cruise Safety, a Century After Titanic
- Modern Thermometers
- Imagining a Census Survey Without a Mandate
- The Risk Numbers
- Law-School Jobs Data Under Review
- A Measure of Understanding
- An Age-Old Debate
- Calculating the Calendar
- Mining Tweets for Public Opinion
- In Implant Controversy, Sure Numbers Are Scarce
- The Crime That’s Counted
- Private Equity’s Job Record
- Elections Change Rules, Face Unforeseen Consequences
- When Polls Turn Up the Wrong Number
2011 47 posts
- A World Full of Alarming Traces
- When to Use Scary Stats
- How Speedy Are High-Speed Internet Lines?
- Pollsters Go Mobile
- Seeking the Most Expensive Products
- Dollars for Diplomas
- Economic Mobility Stats Are Moving Target
- A New Trove of Global Temperature Numbers
- The Seven-Billion-Person Question
- Small Businesses, Big Job Numbers
- No Monkey Business: Typing Shakespeare
- Contextualizing Cycling Stats
- Bag Battle Takes a Statistical Turn
- Tallying a Terror Network
- Humans Trump Machines in Facial Recognition
- The Cloudy Hurricane Irene Economic Forecast
- Sorry, Wrong Number
- World-Wide Wealth
- The Hunger for Reliable Famine Stats
- Surveyors Scale New Heights of Mountain Measurement
- Insecure Numbers Underpin Illegal Voice-Mail Hacking
- Happy Square-Prime Sandwich Day
- Accounting for Astronomical Figures
- How Much Is This Blog Post Worth?
- Contextual Measurement Matters
- A Full Plate of Suggestions for USDA
- Seeking Standards in Tourism Measurement
- Mind the Median
- A Split Vote on Alternative Electoral Systems
- DNA and Bin Laden’s Positive ID
- How Much Did Royal Wedding Cost Britain?
- Do Women Really Control 80% of Household Spending?
- Sexual Stats in the Post-Kinsey Age
- A Statistical Test Gets Its Closeup
- Gauging the Well Being of Happiness Measures
- Radiation Numbers in Damaged Japan Plant
- Shaky Science: Damage Estimates From Japan Tsunami
- Divorcing Hype From Reality in Facebook Stats
- NCAA Bracket Math
- The Middle East’s Pulse-Takers
- The World’s Information Explosion
- Weighing the Beef
- Counting the Crowds in Cairo
- The Cost of Doing Business in the U.S.
- Putting College Evaluations to the Test
- How Many People Suffer From Mental Illness?
- Underwater Homes Stat Springs Leaks
2010 47 posts
- The Numbers Behind a Transplant Funding Cut
- Trees and Wi-Fi May Co-Exist After All
- Criminologists Assign City Crime Rankings Low Score
- The Conflicting Charter-School Numbers
- To the Mapmaker Go Limited Political Spoils
- That $150 Pack of Cigarettes
- The Cost of Doing Business With China
- Forecasting Campaign 2010
- When Construction Costs Runneth Over
- Sex, and Studying It, Is Complicated
- Beyond Polls’ Bottom Line
- Governments Get In the Grading Game
- Dubious Origins for Drugs, and Stats About Them
- A Lifetime of Career Changes
- Keeping Tabs on Traffic
- Putting Teachers to the Test
- Elusive Numbers: U.S. Population by Religion
- Tracking the Image Trackers
- The Census’s 21st-Century Challenges
- The World’s Best Agers
- Studying a Suicide Cluster
- The Case of Apple and the Mysterious Bars
- When Polling Numbers Don’t Look Random
- The Oil-Spill Counting Problem
- The Elusive Link Between Sex Trafficking and Sporting Events
- Just How Risky Are Risky Businesses?
- Self-Reported Economic-Impact Estimates Deserve Scrutiny
- Static In Search for Cellphone-Tumor Link
- Hazy Forecasts
- Overblown Notions About Names
- The Pitfalls of Counting Illegal Immigrants
- The Trouble With Rankings
- Mathematicians Take On Luck
- The Smokeless Tobacco Debate
- What We Don’t Know About the Economy
- Calculating Pay Inequity
- How the Cookie’s Calories Crumble
- How Many iPads Have Been Ordered?
- Disasters’ Shifting Economic Toll
- The Numbers Behind Modern Star Search
- The Trouble With Web-Traffic Numbers
- Dow 10000 and Other Arbitrary Milestones
- Census Bureau’s Balancing Act
- How Hollywood Box-Office Records Are Made
- How the CDC Counts H1N1 Cases
- Winter Wager Almost Yields Windfall
- Tiger Woods and Market-Moving Events
2009 98 posts
- On a Scale of One to Four, How Happy Are You?
- Are Disinfectant Germ-Killing Claims Clean?
- Mammogram Math
- Turkeys, Travel and Other Thanksgiving Myths
- How Many American Men Will Be Arrested in Their Lifetimes?
- If Statisticians Could Turn Back Time
- Cracking the Code Math for a Veto Message
- When Numbers Add Up to More Than Math
- Another Exaggerated Sex-Trade Stat
- The Trouble With Ranking National Health-Care Systems
- An Encyclopedia of Probability
- Why It’s Hard To Measure Spanking’s Effects
- Study: At New York Chain Restaurants, Low-Income Diners Don’t Count Calories
- Polling Controversy Raises Questions of Disclosure
- Lottery Math 101
- Counting the Tea Party Protesters
- Seeking Accurate Job-Creation Numbers
- Some Theorists Withhold Best-Voting-System Award
- Finding Good News in the Numbers on Cancer Deaths
- MPG Fits Awkwardly in Electric-Vehicle Landscape
- Using Math to Keep Pint Glasses Full
- The Waiting Game
- Crystal Balls Have Become Hazy
- Scrambling the Scrabble Rules
- How Many Marriages Started Online?
- A New Scale for Measuring Movies
- Maybe Children Aren’t Getting Fatter
- Reading List: Space, Joe DiMaggio and Tommy Tutone
- How Many Albums Did Michael Jackson Sell?
- When It Comes to Measuring Online Audience, How Much Does Size Matter?
- Do the Numbers Behind Calorie Counts Add Up?
- Statistical Sleuthing on the Iran Election
- Reading List: Oscars, Menus and Pies
- Seeking the Best Coffee in a Popularity Contest
- The Numbers Behind the Health-Care Debate
- Automated Polls Paint Accurate Picture of Virginia Race
- The Nielsen Households That Have Gone Dark
- A New Online Computation Engine Shakes Up Math
- How Rare Are Your Names?
- The Number All Drivers Should Know
- Clemson Controversy Calls Into Question US News College Rankings
- The New Ombudsman of U.K. Stats
- Facebook Gets a Break in New Study on Grades
- Crunching the Numbers on a Craps Record
- Kicking the Tires on the ‘Rebound Effect’
- The Growing Popularity of Popularity Lists
- How Not to Tell If You’re Overweight?
- The Flu’s Death Toll
- Why More Mothers Have a Place to Go
- Americans Become Harder for Pollsters to Reach
- The Internet’s Growing Pains
- Hurricane Season Previews Often Miss the Mark
- Facebook Study’s Caveats Are Lost in the News Feed
- Surveying the State of Online Polling
- Poor Response Rate for Poll of Pollsters
- The Debate Over H-1B Visa Numbers
- Poker Showdown Between Luck and Skill
- How Fans Can Beat Judges on the Wozniak Referendum
- Taking the Measure of Plastic Soup
- The Scrabble Statistics
- Happy Pi Day
- Oklahomans Cut the Cord but Vermonters Don’t
- Advertisers’ Numbers-Based Slugfest
- The Crash Calculations
- Happy Square Root Day
- A (Slightly) Exaggerated Trend: Blacks and Cognac
- The Arcane Math of State Stimulus
- Blackhawks Flirt Again With a Million-Dollar Goal
- Behind the Wall Street Bonus Number
- Shane Battier and the Box Score
- How to Name Your Own Number
- Traders Are No Triskaidekaphobes
- Mark Cuban's Surprising Player-Performance Numbers
- Smoking Gun in A-Rod's Stats Proves Elusive
- Jenny's Famous Number Lives On
- Serena's Odd Australian Open Streak
- Voting Math Doesn't Always Add Up
- Using Math to Set a Curious Subway Record
- How Much Is $900 Billion? Try Spending It $1 Million at a Time
- Pittsburgh’s Disproportionate Title Haul
- Best Super Bowl Ad? Depends on How You Measure
- It's Hip to Have the 0-7 Score Square
- Why Quarterbacks Often Become Super Bowl MVPs
- For Super Bowl Insight, Look to Regular Season
- A Well-Timed Blackhawks Goal
- 'Tipping Point' Takes Off
- The Critical Numbers
- Does Google-Search Carbon Calculation Measure the Wrong Number?
- A Modest Proposal for NHL Standings
- How Many People Were on the National Mall?
- The Month of 14,528 Texts
- Vanity Numbers: Just One Column Needed
- More on Rare NFL Scores
- Here's Your Hypothetical Title Game: Texas Over USC
- Fuzzy Inaugural Math
- Return This Stat for a Refund
- Did Race Win the Election for Obama?
- The NFL and Race, by the Numbers
2008 227 posts
- Mike Greenberg: From Worst to First
- The NFL's Four Home 'Dogs
- How Historic Was Dolphins' Turnaround?
- Why It's Hard to Judge Polls
- The Hunt for 24
- Call It an Electoral Tie
- Evaluating the Charity Evaluators
- A College Football Playoff by the Numbers
- Cellphones' Challenge for Pollsters Grows
- Why ESPN Should Have Expected to Hand Out $1 Million
- The Divergence in Web-Search Stats Continues
- Searching for Insight Into States
- How Big Is Bailout? Peel This Onion to Find Out
- Pollsters Struggle to Project Heisman Winner
- Deciphering a 20% Chance of Rain
- How Much Does Pizza Delivery Cost?
- When Numbers Become Names
- Another Election Quiz, This Time Adding McCain Voters
- The Elusive Irony Index
- In Defense of the BCS Computers
- A Sports Numbers Reading List
- Are Democratic Presidents Good for Stocks?
- Big-State Primary Theory Fails First Big Test
- More Election-Polling Scorecards
- More on the Continued Driving Decline
- Behind the Home-Price Indexes
- Zogby's Misleading Poll of Obama Voters
- How Unlikely Was the Historic 11-10 Score?
- Where Do Prisoners Live?
- By One Calculation, Election Came Down to 450,000 Voters
- Which Party Benefits From the Electoral College?
- Pollsters and Cellphones: An Update
- Breaking Down Voter-Turnout Numbers
- Obama Won. So Did Election Forecasters.
- Why You Should Ignore Early Exit-Poll Numbers
- When Will CNN Call the Election?
- A Global Straw Vote
- Where the Poll Numbers Stand on Election Eve
- Poll Asks for Presidential Predictions, Rather Than Preference
- Putting Earmarks in Context
- How Improbable Would a Rays' Championship Have Been?
- McCain and the Youngest Voters
- Should World Series Forecasts Be Charged With an Error?
- Election Reading List
- The Mysterious Provenance of Piracy Stats
- The Final Countdown
- Truth and Television
- Why Free Tacos Are a Good Bet
- Polling's Apples and Oranges
- How Many Red Sox Fans Does It Take to Switch Off a Light Bulb?
- The Korean Height Gap
- A Sports Numbers Reading List
- College-Football Rankings: Sagarin v. Sagarin
- Blacks in Baseball: A Statistical Change-Up
- How Close We Were to Presidents Humphrey and Dole
- The Wisdom of Political Crowds
- Split Decision for Biden v. Palin
- Is Internet Search Really Declining?
- The Day Stocks Rose but the Dow Plunged
- Monday's Stock-Market Decline: For the Record
- Another Unlikely (But Not That Unlikely) Home-Run Catch
- Scoring the Debate Live on CNN
- The Dangers of Teen Driving
- How Likely Is an Electoral College Tie?
- The Fan Who Caught Two of Yankee Stadium's Last Homers
- Ranking the Workers of the World
- Numbers Guy: Follow-ups
- Measuring Bolt's Potential
- About Those Hundreds of Thousands of Lost Laptops at Airports
- What Are the Most-Common English Words?
- Alex Rodriguez, Clutch Hitter
- Counting Olympics Watchers World-Wide
- Like Father, Like Son
- Counting Our Towns
- Yankees Fans Target Long-Shot Prizes
- Counting Louisiana's Gustav Evacuees
- The Immortal Math of Dog Years
- Who Won the Olympics Forecasting Competition?
- The Math of Affirmative Action for Democratic Delegates
- Who Won the Olympics Medal Count? Let Me Count the Ways
- NBC Targets Dubious Olympics TV Record
- China's Unusual Golden Haul
- Phelps v. Spitz: An Update
- Phelps v. Spitz: By the Numbers
- Reading List
- An Overweight Nation
- About That Basketball Audience of a Billion
- Beijing's Murky Pollution Numbers
- We're Far Removed From Proof of 'Six Degrees' Theory
- MLB Standings Get More Sophisticated
- Map Your Neighborhood, by the Numbers
- U.S. Drug Use: No. 1 (of 17 Countries)
- Automated Pollsters Seek Equal Footing
- Cuil's Overreaching Numbers
- Baseball's Biggest Ninth-Inning Comebacks
- The U.S. Has 49 States and One Big Lawn
- Don't Let This Blog Post Interrupt You
- Do Cell-Tower Climbers Have the Nation's Deadliest Job?
- Sorting out Foreclosure Numbers
- How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?
- Holding Baseball Forecasters to Account
- The Nationals' Alarming Nielsen Numbers
- Weekend Reading List
- What Does It Cost Amazon.com to Go Dark?
- Can Art Be Rated From 1 to 1,000?
- Which Would You Choose: Gas or Cash?
- A Tool for the Amazon-Ranking Obsessed
- Why Cars Stall on Train Tracks
- A Political Numbers Reading List
- Tennis Replay Is Under Review
- Sorry, You Missed the Year's Happiest Day
- Calculating the Toll of War
- 'Pundit Watch' May Need Its Own Watchdog
- Trying to Lose 50 Million Pounds
- Can Statistics Explain Soccer?
- MPG Calculations Cause Confusion
- Is Houston Undercounting Murders?
- 'Family Feud' Finds Survey Niche
- Is Hiking Less Safe than Skiing or Surfing?
- Fact-Checking Claims of NBA Playoff Manipulation
- Mathematicians Critique Journal Rankings
- Is Amazon Running Out of UPS Tracking Numbers?
- Numbers Guy Quiz Results: 'Guesstimation'
- Why Chipper Jones Is Such a Long Shot for .400
- Google Opens Its Data Vault - A Crack
- Tallying the Effects of the New GI Bill
- When Dying Patients Are Given a Wrong Number
- Hurricane Forecasters Embrace Uncertainty
- After Mixed Primary Performance, Pollsters Pivot Toward November
- How the Government Measures a Traffic Decline
- Baseball Analyst Draws Fans by Crunching Election Numbers
- Baseball's Imbalance of Power
- Numbers Guy Quiz: Guesstimation
- The Media's Favorite Disaster Numbers
- Numbers Reading List
- How Valuable is a Helping Hand in Hoops?
- Dubai's Rampant Crane Inflation
- Cellphone Surveys Get a Boost
- Numbers Guy Interview: Steven Brams
- Is the 'Limbaugh Effect' Real?
- A Pair of Lucky Baseball Fans
- Measuring the China Earthquake's Magnitude
- In Vino Veritas?
- A Sports Numbers Reading List
- Primary Math After Indiana and North Carolina
- Foggy Marijuana Stats Cloud Debate in New York
- Are Breastfeeding Rates Really Rising?
- Numbers Guy Interview: Leonard Mlodinow
- Can the Red Sox Sweep Again? Furniture Buyers Want to Know
- A Superdelegate Crystal Ball
- The Electoral College's Subtle Math
- Ford's Googol Googol Console Options
- Primary Math, After Pennsylvania
- Is David Beckham's Deal Really Worth $250 Million?
- Why Good Data Can Be Hard to Find
- Probability Quiz: Results and Winners
- Passwords May Be Safer Than They Appear
- Numbers Reading List
- Ken Pomeroy's Winning Bracket
- Hallmark's Census of Centenarians
- Muslims May Have Overtaken Catholics a While Ago
- Pollsters Debate the Internet
- A Numbers Guy Quiz on Probability
- Why It's Hard to Map Media Coverage
- Texas Busts Brackets
- In Defense of Joe DiMaggio
- Starbucks Stays Mum on Drink Math
- Is Clinton's Pennsylvania Lead Really 20 Points?
- Beer and Birds Don't Mix in the Czech Republic
- Number Crunchers vs. Experts vs. the Masses
- Is China Really No. 1 in Internet Users?
- Numbers May Not Be Best Measure of Earth Hour
- Gmail's Exponential Growth
- Are Americans Really Reading Less?
- A Number Cruncher's Bitter Bracket Memory
- California's Delegate Swing
- The Tricky Math of a Florida and Michigan Revote
- Do Readability Formulas Work?
- Obama's California Comeback
- How Many Florida and Michigan Voters Were 'Silenced'?
- How Delegate Math Played Out in Texas, Ohio
- Pennsylvania's Missed Opportunity
- Vermont's Outsized Influence
- Separating Good Polls From Bad
- Do Parts of Ohio and Texas Not Count?
- Testing Clinton's Big-State Theory
- Leap-Year Moms' Leap-Year Babies Are No Great Surprise
- Weekend Reading List
- Is Voter Turnout Unusually High?
- The Elusive Superdelegate Count
- And the Oscar Goes to... Fewer TV Viewers
- I Gave 200% on This Blog Post
- Football Forecasters Think Too Much
- New Research on the 'Myths' of Online Predators
- Clinton's Lucky Breaks in Alabama
- Reports of Basketball's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
- Poll Mash-Ups Gain Currency, Critics
- How Good Was 2007 for Newspaper Web Sites?
- Obama Gains, But Delegate Counters Still Disagree
- How Unlikely Was the Obama-Clinton Tie in Syracuse?
- Revisiting Two Super Tuesday Forecasts
- More on the Delegate Discrepancy
- Delegate Numbers Are All Over the Map
- Why Smaller States Often Control More Delegates
- Who's Winning California? Don't Ask the Pollsters
- More Pitfalls From Purported Exit Polls
- A Guide to Election Numbers Resources
- The Postgame Ad-Ranking Game
- Super Bowl's Questionable QB Numbers
- Giants Enjoy Road, Sweet Road
- The Giants Defy the Numbers
- As Americans Cut the Cord, Pollsters Follow
- The Super Bowl Stat That Won't Die
- An Update on 'Unlimited' Pizza Toppings
- How Setting Goals Can Improve Data
- How Likely Are Sex Offenders to Repeat Their Crimes?
- Digg's Transparency Hole
- Chrysler's Coin Collector
- The NFL's Most Mysterious Number
- The Challenge of School Rankings
- A Full-Year Look at Top 2007 Web Searches
- The Swimming Pool in Your Burger
- Can Number Crunchers Go Mainstream?
- New Approach to Count of Iraqi Civilian Deaths
- Iowa's Prescient Pollster
- Iowa's Caucus Math
- Huckabee's Wrong Number on Pakistani Immigration
2007 181 posts
- Pizza Puzzle: When 'Unlimited Toppings' Comes With a Limit
- A Polling Primer
- Tough Luck: Ranking the State Lotteries
- How People Really Search the Web
- How Many Magazines Debuted This Year?
- A Hurricane Forecast's Poor Track Record
- Box-Office Records Are the Stuff of 'Legend'
- Water Bottles Slim Down
- Do Suicides Really Peak During the Holidays?
- When Quarters Add Up to Billions
- The Heisman Forecaster
- What's in a Name?
- What's a Statistical Tie, Anyway?
- An Alarming AIDS Prediction
- U.S. News Goes to High School
- Is It Better to Live in Iceland Than in Norway?
- Counting the Drink Combos at a Sonic Drive-In
- Weekend Reading List
- Behind the U.N.'s HIV Numbers
- What Will You Do With Your 900 Million Transistors?
- Parsing the Estimates on Iraq-War Costs
- Breaking Through Friendship Counts
- Why Baseball Players Might Be Underpaid
- Does the U.S. Lead in Life Expectancy?
- Radiohead Criticizes Outside Sales Figures
- Finding the Odds of Synchronized Couples
- The Short List of Nature's Best
- Counting Radiohead's Sales
- Lady Luck Didn't Visit the Venetian
- Why Your Clock Changes Sunday
- Shining a Light on Energy-Savings Claim
- Whose Fourth-Graders Are Smartest?
- How Big Is Rhode Island, Anyway?
- True Love Is Hard to Find
- Could a Melting Ice Sheet Really Raise the Oceans 23 Feet?
- Ugly Numbers for Philadelphia
- Will This Winter Be Warmer Than Average?
- Are the Rockies Really That Good, or Just Lucky?
- What's the Real Cost of Counterfeiting?
- How History Judges Bush's Deficits
- An NBA Star's Funny Numbers
- McDonald's Monopoly Returns With More Modest Jackpot
- The Cotton Family's Lucky Day
- Baseball's Uneven Postseason
- Would You Let a Survey Company Scan Your PC?
- More on Jacqueline Gagne
- A Closer Look at Online Rankings
- Elusive Numbers on a Hidden Crime
- The Numbers of the 2007 MLB Season
- How Many Languages Are Endangered?
- A Cybercrime Stat's Nine Lives
- I'd Like to Answer Your Survey, but I'm Offline
- Ketchup vs. Salsa: By the Numbers
- Checking the Candidates' Numbers
- A Look at Hillary's Health-Care Numbers
- The Rarity of Triplets
- Was Miss Teen South Carolina Set Up?
- U.S. News Revs Up Rankings
- Which Sporting Event Is the Best Attended?
- Bringing Big Numbers Down to Size
- Americans and Their Guns
- Grading the Forecasts of 'Experts'
- Counting Bloggers, and Blog Readers
- Staying Up Late to Answer Web Surveys
- Mary Meeker's Fuzzy Math
- A Closer Look at SAT Score Declines
- The Trouble With Ranking Life-Expectancy Numbers
- Counting the Nation's Obese
- Calculating the Cost of Weddings
- Judge Bags Survey in Whole Foods Case
- Increasingly in Baseball, Stealing Pays
- Searching for Web Numbers
- Aspiring to Be the Wikipedia of Numbers
- The Numbers Behind Rubik's Cube
- Diamondbacks Defy the Numbers
- A Tree-Saving Stat Melts Away
- The Science of the Sophomore
- Suspicious Betting in a Tennis Match
- All About Bonds and No. 756
- The Mystery of the Median
- Weekend Reading List
- Judge in Whole Foods Case Will Decide What a Survey Says
- Analysts Ponder iPhone Sales Forecasts
- Hunting for Suspicious NBA Stats
- Counting Sex Offenders on MySpace
- Counting 'Harry Potter' Sales
- Jacqueline Gagne's Close-Up
- Are Sports Teams Juicing Attendance Figures?
- The Numbers Behind Life Expectancy
- Using Sex to Sell Surveys
- Seventh-Year Hogwarts Coursework: Remedial Math
- Counting Slim's Hefty Holdings
- How Many People Does China Execute?
- How Accurate Are Juries?
- TV Providers Swap Stats
- How Much Juice Is Your Computer Using at Night?
- Just How Much of the Earth Saw Live Earth?
- A Timely Shift in Online Ratings
- Are Seven Wonders of the World Enough?
- New York City's Gender Gap
- How Much Rain Fell in Marble Falls, Texas?
- Measuring L.A. Trains' Emissions
- Checking the Numbers on Countdown Clocks
- The Return of a Sunscreen Myth
- If Pythagoras Had Been a Baseball Fan...
- Golfing Ace Jacqueline Gagne Strikes Again
- Another Look at the Reading Gap
- The News Counters
- Isaac Newton Calculates the Apocalypse
- Ranking the World's Most Peaceful Nations
- How Rare Is Rare Form of TB?
- More Challenges in Measuring Web Traffic
- Measuring the Reading Class Gap
- U.S. News Rankings Go Under the Microscope
- Who Watches Hockey?
- Is New York City Undercounting Its Homeless Population?
- A Dump Truck's Worth of Quirky Conversions
- When Will Barry Bonds Break the Record?
- Landing a Prime Phone Number
- Online Surveys' Blind Spot
- Counting Noncitizens in U.S. Prisons
- A World Bank Challenge: Counting the World's Poor
- When 307 Digits Aren't Enough
- Newsweek's Ranking of High Schools Is More Advocacy Than Science
- Tracking How Far Soccer Players Run
- The Numbers of the NBA's Bouncing Balls
- Glaxo's Avandia and the 'Meta-Analysis'
- Follow-up on NBA's Study of Race and Refs
- The Difficulty of Counting Divorces
- Greater Transparency for Web Traffic, and Wal-Mart
- A Most Unlikely Collection of Holes in One
- A Questionable Survey of 'Road Rage'
- In Search of the World's Most Livable Cities
- Parsing the NBA's Study on Refs and Race
- Does a Darkened Google Really Save Electricity?
- Germany's Effort to Stitch Together Millions of Shredded Secret Documents
- Putting a Price on Mom
- Dobbs Report Links Leprosy and Immigration, But Numbers Don't Hold Up
- Tallying Bill O'Reilly's Name-Calling
- Giving Felons the Vote in Florida
- The Subjective Numbers of Soccer
- A Judge's Mathematical Gambit
- Saving the Planet, One Square of Toilet Paper at a Time
- How Much Are Frivolous Lawsuits Really Costing You?
- Keeping Up With High-Speed Internet Stats
- How Would an Audit of comScore and Nielsen NetRatings Work?
- How One Author Tried to Boost His Amazon.com Ranking
- Boston's Home-Run Streak: What Were the Odds?
- After Virginia Tech, a Closer Look at Gun Stats
- So Long, Sanjaya
- Counting Clicks on the Web
- Wet Enough for Ya?
- Do 90% of New Jerseyans Really Buckle Up?
- Fearing Friday the 13th
- Sanjaya's Surprise: Behind the 'Idol' Vote
- In Polling, Sometimes It's Not All in the Question
- Airline Rankings Don't Tell the Whole Story
- The Numbers of 'Jeopardy'
- Grad-School Rankings Glitches
- Parsing the Stats in the Hormone Study
- It's Hurricane Forecast Season Again
- Changing the Odds in the Texas Lottery
- A Bunt, Six Months Later
- A Lucky Day in New Zealand
- When Numbers Get in the Way of Compassion
- Can Zagat's Numbers Be Cooked?
- Seeking Perfect Prognostication
- Nicole Richie vs. Carol Burnett
- The Science of Lines, and Other Reading
- Cracking Amazon.com's Best-Seller List
- The Best GM in Sports: Kevin McHale?
- At Your Leisure
- How Many Civilians Have Been Killed in Iraq?
- Counting Engineers
- And the Winner Is...
- U.S. News Rankings Spat
- To the Daring Go the Spoils
- A Little Game Theory
- The Lost Tomb of Jesus?
- Welcome to the Numbers Guy Blog
- Carl's Reading List
Links: archived copies
Earlier and other work, 1997–2007
302 pieces
Gelf Magazine 2005–07 · 95 pieces
- The Power of Live Sports
- Baseball's Conservative Revolutionary
- Danny Ocean: Now With 100% Real Laughs!
- One Sports Fan's Dream Year
- An Irish Hoops Odyssey
- Web of Deceit
- When Jesse Owens Raced in Front of Hitler
- A Hoax About a Hoax About 'Hoax'
- A Must-See, Until the 'Inane Letdown'
- Baseball in 17 Syllables or Less
- A Voice Above All Others
- Great Film. Oh, Except the Lead Actor Can't Act.
- 'Wild Hogs' Is Hysterically Funny. Well, Sometimes. Mostly Its Premise.
- The Quickie Way to Follow Sports
- Mets Bloggers Who Can't Wait for Next Year
- Come See the Film That Rocked the Box Office Despite Bad Reviews
- Hockey's Black Pioneers
- Basketball's Forgotten Legend
- A Quiet Football Visionary
- I Like! (Some But Not All Things About This Movie)
- Billy Wagner, Baseball Philosopher
- Marble's Memorable Mississippi Moment
- Does ESPN Cheer Republicans?
- When Reporters Make News
- If You Quote the Reviews Accurately, the Terrorists Have Won
- The Sun Also Rises on the Moon
- Sticking Up for the Refs
- My Two Years With Barry Bonds
- Journey to 'Fantasyland'
- Don't Quote Me on That
- 'Bad Movie, Good Actors'
- An Interview With The Smoking Gun
- We Spoke Too Soon
- Double Team
- Albert Brooks, an Acquired Taste
- So Long, Plagiarists
- Scare Quotes
- Pill-Popping
- An Interview With the Consumerist
- Floodwater, Anyone?
- 2005's Best-Reviewed Steve Carell Movie
- Fighting for Press Freedom in Uganda
- Irony Is Lost on the Copywriters
- Playing Defense
- Playing Defense, Continued
- Hustled
- Fantastic Four Is No Fun
- Fuzzy Math and MollyMath
- Blind Justice
- Corrections 6/27-7/3
- Mark Cuban on Grokster, Redux
- Blurb Racket 6/24/05
- America's Most-Eligible Blogger
- Corrections 5/30-6/19
- Blurb Racket 6/18/05
- Corrections 5/23-5/29
- Blurb Racket 5/31/05
- Blurb Racket 5/24/05
- What We Can Learn From Michelle Delio
- Corrections 5/9-5/15
- Corrections 5/2-5/9
- Blurb Racket 5/9/05
- Rumors and Innuendo
- Fast and Loose
- Corrections 4/25-5/1
- Blurb Racket 4/29/05
- Blurb Racket 4/22/05
- Craving Human Contact
- Blurb Racket 4/17/05
- Zooming In 4/9/05
- Bracketology Redux
- Corrections 3/28-4/3
- Zooming In 4/2/05
- Budget Sucks—but At Least It's On-Time!
- Blurb Racket 4/1/05
- Mark Cuban on Grokster
- The Blurb Racket, 3/25/05
- The Blurb Racket
- Sharing the Love
- Gambling Man
- Bubble Fatigue II
- Bubble Fatigue
- Corrections 3/14-3/20
- Off the Mark
- Corrections 3/7-3/13
- Hungry Man
- Corrections 2/28-3/6
- Corrections 2/21-2/28
- Corrections 2/14-2/20
- Too Many Sports Guys
- The Wild Op-Ed Page
- Our Favorite Corrections, 1/29-2/13
- Teddy Bears' Aphrodisiac Powers
- Redick's Rhymes
- Awful Human Beings
Wall Street Journal Online 2003–05 · 47 pieces
- U.S. Open Notebook Using Stats to Try and Take Roger Federer's Measure
- Tie Breaker
- MarketWatch Co-Founder Ends SEC Stock Case
- Getting a Grip on Internet Traffic
- Bloggers Give Beachfront View Of Devastation, Relief Efforts
- Tech Q&A: Microsoft's Secret Codes
- Despite Earlier Predictions, 'Free' Web Is Going Strong
- Billionaire NBA Owner's Gamble on a Hedge Fund Faces Long Odds
- BBC Is Victim of Hoax in Report on Bhopal
- Local Papers Try Selling Football News Online
- California Skydiver Sees Windfall After Baseball Returns to D.C.
- Federal Project Catalogs Old Campaign Web Sites
- Abandoned Campaign Sites Can Draw Unwanted Tenants
- Online Dispenser of Drugs Wants Some Respect
- Web Publishers Move Toward Standardizing Ad-Viewership Data
- AOL Plans Service to Scour Internet for Travel Deals
- WSJ.com Projects Jason Acebal Has Won Its Election Contest
- Bloggers Face Life After the Election
- Reporters, Pundits File Real-Time Web Updates
- Pollsters Generally Had It Right, but Missed Some Key Battles
- AOL to Offer Antivirus Tools Without an Additional Charge
- Tech Q&A: Netflix's CEO Is Mobilizing for Battle With Amazon
- To the Winners...
- Washington's New Ball Club Still Needs an Online Home
- Technical Problems at PayPal Cause Troubles for eBay Users
- Cheney Mix-Up Leads Surfers to Anti-Bush Site Run by Soros
- Losing Cellphone No Longer Means Loss of Contacts
- New Services Are Making It Easier to Hide Who Is Behind Web Sites
- Campaigns Ratchet Up Online Spin for Debate
- Effort to Broadcast Alerts to Cellphones Gains Steam
- Reports on Spam Levels Paint Differing Views of the Problem
- Online-Ad Revenue Hit Record in Second Quarter
- Staging a Comeback
- Gaining Access
- Finding Common Ground
- Get the Word Out
- Viacom Makes Buyout Bid For Struggling SportsLine
- Glory Days
- Pollsters Debate Merits of Phone, Online Surveys
- There Could Be No Google Without Edward Kasner
- Entrepreneurs Look for Ways to Exploit Google's Ad System
- Lawyers Bid Up Value of Web-Search Ads
- More Web Sites Plan Ads Based on What Users Read
- Computers, Digital Technology Put Calls of NBA Referees to the Test
- Small Web Advertisers Mobilize as News Breaks
- How Do You Narrow Your Product Options?
- Money's Worth: Let your property work for you
Media Life 2001–02 · 21 pieces
- Flaw in the plan to revive 'MNF'
- Perhaps a shot for indoor soccer
- McDonnell's SI: Not a radical remake
- Madden makes cents for ABC
- Expect little pluck from hockey's puck
- There's a bright side to Skategate
- Pondering a cable future for curling
- Sports predictions worth pondering: Part II
- Sports predictions worth pondering
- NBC's bid to woo young to Olympics
- Yes, a great Super Bowl but...
- A Mr. Fix-It for Sports Illustrated
- Don't bet it all on a Rams rout.
- Cheap Super Bowl spots. Such a deal.
- Pro soccer's bold bid for attention
- Why the big stink over college bowls
- Baseball's oddly curveball economics
- That S word returns to baseball
- Very latest word on the Tennis Channel
- NFL's limping but still in the game
- The Tougher War for Hearts and Minds
Monitor (Uganda) 2001–02 · 63 pieces
- U.S. NGO calls for peace in the north
- End of malaria not imminent
- Mugabi has MLS hopes
- AGOA Seminar Coming to Kampala
- Bujagali construction delayed because of financial shortfall
- Ouma, Lubwama victorious; "doing it for Uganda"
- Accused murderer's hearing delayed again
- Kassim the Dream ready to rumble
- Bush Sidelining Museveni, Woos Bashir -U.S. Group
- Reid a former Tabliq
- U.S., other donors shun Somaliland, says NGO
- Suspect Samuel to face hearing Friday
- Nigerian charged in murder of Ugandan in U.S.
- Bujagali project moving ahead, but criticism persists
- U.S. attack on Somalia unlikely, say experts
- Dam approved, but obstacles remain
- Uganda partly free, Muslim world not
- U.S. sends mixed message to Sudan
- Bank funds could buy generics
- Ugandans in U.S. lead teams to success
- Kaawaase’s our man, say Ugandan footballers
- Ssempala scrambles to save dam project
- Congo panelist stands by reports on Uganda
- Agricultural products next goal -- envoy
- U.S. House passes AGOA II
- Kabila supports Interahamwe -- envoy
- Uganda not pressured on AIDS drugs, says Ssempala
- Museveni tours Ground Zero
- Security Council speaks on Burundi
- Museveni decries West's "parasitism"
- Museveni and Bush agree, says Ssempala
- Kabila accuses Rwandans of stepping up plunder
- Ugandan fisherman's journey watched by millions worldwide
- Ssempala: AGOA investment my No. 1 priority
- Scholar urges 'pluralistic political system'
- Q&A with U.N. drug-control officer
- Uganda missing out on North American tourism market
- World Bank official defends Bujagali project
- Kabila speaks harshly of Uganda, Rwanda, U.S.
- Ambassadors foresee peaceful resolution to dispute
- War could cause refugee crisis
- Tourism from U.S. shows signs of rebound
- Federalism would benefit all regions, says Ggwanga Mujje
- World Bank, WHO launch TB plan
- Ugandan to Fight Alongside Taliban
- Fund to be operational by end of year -- Kiyonga
- Amin and Obote 'should be brought to justice' says Human Rights Watch
- Ugandans no-shows at judo tournament
- Odongo denies UPDF used mines in Congo
- Hunger Project may expand
- After the attacks, a mission goes on
- New Bin Laden Link to Kampala Revealed Again
- Uganda not accused of harboring al-Qaeda
- No calls yet to Ugandan embassy
- I’ll not sit by as govt tortures our people - Besigye
- Bin Laden's links to Uganda revealed
- Ssempala pledges Uganda’s full support
- Shaken but safe
- Okwir speaks from London
- A day of terror
- Shock in U.S. over Byanyima detention
- Mountain climbing reopens with a scam
- Scandal brews over Rwenzori tour firms; Shs 2.6bn at stake
Yale publications 2001–03 · 5 pieces
CNN/SI 2000 · 10 pieces
Science papers 1998–2002 · 5 pieces
- B(E2) Values in ¹⁵⁰Nd and the Critical Point Symmetry X(5)
- Two-phonon γ-vibrational strength in osmium nuclei
- A General Method for Constrained Analysis of Fluorescence Anisotropy Decay: Application of the Steady-State Anisotropy
- Dynamics of Biomolecules: Assignment of Local Motions by Fluorescence Anisotropy Decay
- Fluorescence anisotropy decay: finding the correct physical model
Yale Herald 1997–2001 · 49 pieces
- Tagliabue talks football
- Celebrating football, Commons style
- Ivy League football gets back into the pro scene
- The Four Horsemen saddle up for the NFL
- Yale has one more chance for a happy ending
- Ivy hopes dim, football fights Princeton for pride
- Elis face Bears' explosive offense, porous defense
- With five tied for the Ivy lead, Elis turn to EJ
- Lions' Reese reminder of what could have been
- Quakers to test Bulldog defense, ground game
- Cornell eludes the prick of Rose to maintain No. 1 standing
- Fighting 'til the end, but who will win?
- Revamped Holy Cross set to challenge Bulldogs
- New football marketing program targets fans
- Yale to face Cornell in crucial early match-up
- It's lonely at the top; Elis defend Ivy title
- Tribute to teacher, life of music
- Required housing worsens crunch
- Monster.com CEO Jeff Taylor on his company's monster success
- Lemon's "Tree" spreads its international limbs
- Greenberg: hitting home runs against Hitler
- When a jail becomes a sweatshop
- The current CR/D/F policy is a failure
- Putting Yale sports on the 'net
- Injured Eli: Isaiah Cavaco redshirting junior season
- Basketball's last dance...and it's in the gym
- Twenty-six games later, Elis finally pull out a win on the road
- Let my people go
- Stunning upset inspires Elis for rest of season
- Fundraising: for Yale, for Yale, and for Yale
- B-ball keeps on steamrolling foes in Ivy play
- Yale tuition increases are unjustified
- Elis look to salvage season with strong Ivy start
- Withdrawal policies lack compassion
- Don't you dare time my pitches
- Superintendent Mayo sets tough new standards
- Losing the point behind the rules
- The Game meets the 'net
- Croquet: The game before The Game
- New Bowl rankings snub overachievers
- Where have all of Yale's leaders gone?
- Sights and sounds of a rugby championship
- The Future of the ID card
- Club athletes should just play, not pay
- Peering into the athlete's world
- Elm City fights for tennis, but at what cost?
- Hacked!
- Art Sound Machines
- The school of the future
Links: archived copies