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Stats + Stories
Statistics need Stories to give them meaning. Stories need Statistics to give them credibility. Every Thursday John Bailer & Rosemary Pennington get together with a new, interesting guest to bring you the Statistics behind the Stories and the Stories behind the Statistics.
Episodes
Stats + StoriesEcological and Environmental Stats for Earth Day | Stats + Stories Episode 228 (REPOST)
Earth day was launched in 1970 in the aftermath of several environmental disasters in the publication of Rachel Carson Silent Spring. It was designed to help…
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The OECD: Characterizing Global Economic Trends | Stats + Stories Episode 361
According to the U.S. State Department, three-fifths of global GDP, three-quarters of world trade, and 90 percent of official development assistance can be…
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Counting on Official Statistics | Stats+Stories Episode 360
When people think of public goods, they most likely think of things like parks or schools. But official statistics are also a kind of public good. They help us…
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Why Should You Care If A Statistical Agency is Being Reorganized? | Stats + Stories Episode 75 (REPOST)
Lisa LaVange is the 2018 President of the American Statistical Association and she is PhD, is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Biostatistics…
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Chart Spark | Stats + Stories Episode 359
Chart Spark | Stats + Stories Episode 359 by The Stats + Stories Team
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Tracking Police Violence | Stats + Stories Episode 358
The use of force by police has been in the news a lot lately, in connection to everything from protests on college campuses to the death of individuals during…
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Love, Sex and the Pandemic | Stats + Stories Episode 175 (REPOST)
The COVID pandemic has complicated everything from school to work to grocery shopping. The need to physically distance from people not in our homes has made it…
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Learning Baseball Through Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 357
Sports analytics is a booming industry with new technologies allowing for the parsing of ever more sophisticated statistics. Analysts can now examine the…
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Women's Endurance Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 356
Are you ready to register for a 100-mile race that includes 60,000 feet of elevation gain? How about a 3000-mile race cycling across the United States in the…
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Will You Be One Of The 8% Who Keep Their New Year's Resolutions? Understanding Behavior Change | Stats + Stories Episode 23 (REPOST)
Dr. Rose Marie Ward is a professor in Miami University's Department of Kinesiology & Health. She studies college student health, with a focus on both…
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Robotic Limbs and the Data Powering Them | Stats + Stories Episode 355
About 5.4 million Americans live with some form of paralysis. Sometimes that's just a temporary loss of mobility, but for the Americans whose paralysis is…
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Just In Time For The Holiday Shopping Season | Stats + Stories Episode 47 (REPOST)
Glenn Platt (@glennplatt) is the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Network Technology & Management & Director of Interactive Media Studies at Miami…
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Music Streaming Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 354
Artists of today are still making albums, however with so much emphasis being put on streaming charts how many of today's album streams are being made up by a…
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Name, Image, and Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 353
For decades, college athletes could not make any money from their sports identities. In 2021 the NCAA passed an interim name image and likeness policy which…
Stats + StoriesOut of this World Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 352
The blue ice giants in our outer solar system have unusual magnetic fields, missing what we understand as traditional north-south poles. For decades…
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Thankful For A Bountiful Harvest - How Bountiful Was It And Who Produced It? | Stats + Stories Episode 45 (REPOST)
Linda J. Young is Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service . She oversees…
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Burgeoning Baby Names | Stats + Stories Episode 351
After Hurricane Helene left a path of destruction from Florida through North Carolina in 2024 you may not expect to see a lot of little Helene's in…
Stats + StoriesEat, Pod, Die | Stats + Stories Episode 350
Trees have long been imagined as the earth’s lungs inhaling carbon dioxide and exhaling the oxygen needed to support life. That life, too, is important for…
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Household Cost Intricacies | Stats + Stories Episode 349
Jill Leyland represents the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) on the UK National Statistician’s “Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices – Stakeholder”. Together with…
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No One is Poisoning Your Kids' Candy, Trust the Numbers | Stats + Stories Episode 206 (REPOST)
The costumes are ready and the annual opportunity to go out and harass your neighbors to get candy is once again upon us. Yes, it's time for Halloween. And…
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The Statistical Kings of Comedy | Stats + Stories Episode 348
A journalist, statistician and sound engineer walk into a bar. Well, well, actually, to a studio to record a podcast. Comedians have been a source of great…
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Fixing the Lottery | Stats + Stories Episode 347
Powerball, Mega Millions Cash for Life and more. Missouri offers many games of chance that have potential benefits for the players and guaranteed benefits for…
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How Businesses Function | Stats + Stories Episode 346
How important is it for businesses to increase their profits each year or offer fair wages to workers of all types? How do you think businesses are doing in…
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Bats and the Next Pandemic | Stats + Stories Episode 345
James J. Cochran is associate dean for research with the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College. He is also professor of statistics and the Rogers-Spivey…
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Throwing the Red Flag | Stats + Stories Episode 344
A long pass down the sideline is caught in bounds. Or was it? The referees ruled it a catch, but the opposing team was unconvinced. In the NFL there's a way to…
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Covering the Olympics | Stats + Stories Episode 343
Bo Li, is an associate professor in Sport Leadership and Management department. He teaches sport administration, sport marketing and sport public relations…
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How the Bureau of Labor Statistics Gets its Data | Stats + Stories Episode 113 (Repost)
Wendy Martinez has been serving as the Director of the Mathematical Statistics Research Center at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for six years. Prior to…
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Sports Analytics in the Classroom | Stats + Stories Episode 342
Sports generate a lot of data among them individual player metrics, team performance data, and specific game statistics. And there are a lot of tools to crunch…
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Back to School | A Stats+Stories Special Episode
It’s that time of year again. The summer is still in full swing, but it’s time to get bookbags on backs and butts in seats to start the new school year. To…
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Randomized Response Polling | Stats + Short Stories Episode 341
Dr. James Hanley is a professor of biostatistics in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. His work has received several awards including the…
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The Nation's Data at Risk | Stats + Stories Episode 340
The democratic engine of the United States relies on accurate and reliable data to function. A year-long study of the 13 federal agencies involved in U.S. data…
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What is Biocomplexity? | Stats + Stories Episode 339
One thing that we always value at Stat+Stories is the story of, “How did we get here?”. Today’s episode follows our colleague, from work that she did in the…
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Robodebt | Stats + Stories Episode 338
In 2016, the Australian government launched a program it said would make tracking welfare benefits easier. Instead, it falsely told hundreds of thousands of…
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Treating Patients During a Civil War | Stats + Stories Episode 337
The civil war in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, which lasted from November 2020 to November 2022, left as many as 600 thousand people dead. The war fought by…
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Olympic Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 336
Athletes around the world are preparing to live out their Olympic dreams in Paris this summer. Many of those athletes have been competing in national and world…
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Official Statistics Down Under | Stats + Stories Episode 335
Dennis Trewin is a pioneer of social statistics that are leading to meaningful measurement of social capital in Australia. He was the head of the Australian…
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Historical Data Finding | Stats + Stories Episode 334
We leave data behind as we travel across the internet, our preferences and purchases transforming into a veritable goldmine of information for companies hoping…
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Gene Therapy Trials and Tribulations | Stats + Stories Episode 333
When a gene in the human body goes bad, it can cause illness and disease. Scientists have been working for decades to develop therapies to address faulty…
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Pandemic Education History | Stats + Short Stories Episode 332
Pandemic Education History | Stats + Short Stories Episode 332 by The Stats + Stories Team
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Getting Into Music Statistics | Stats + Short Stories Episode 330
We’ve always said that data science is a gateway to other fields on this show. From climate change to medical research, knowledge around numbers can be useful…
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The Urban Data Platform | Stats + Stories Episode 331
Community leaders regularly make decisions that impact the lives of community members. From where green space will be located to what businesses to approve to…
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Patient Safety Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 329
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hospital mortality rates in the US were on the decline in the early 2000s, even as total…
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Statistical Anti-Trafficking Efforts | Stats + Stories Episode 328
More than 27 million individuals are the victims of human trafficking globally that’s according to the US State Department. The 2022 United Nations report on…
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Start With the Charts | Stats + Stories Episode 327
Journalists are often tasked with making complicated information accessible to a wide audience. Given mere minutes or inches to communicate information that…
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Statistics Behind the Headlines: Prediction Population Growth | Stats + Stories Episode 326
How do you learn about what’s going on in the world? Did a news headline grab your attention? Did a news story report on recent research? What do you need to…
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Step Out in the Sunshine | Stats + Short Stories Episode 325
As you reach the end of a long day with an excess of stress how do you recharge? Have you found that a long stroll in the sun or through the woods can provide…
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W.O.M.B.A.T. | Stats + Short Stories Episode 324
Would you be surprised if a wombat won a statistical achievement award? well our guest Noel Cressie is here to talk about the WOllongong Methodology for…
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The Washington Post Climate Lab | Stats + Stories Episode 323
Newsrooms struggle with communicating climate data. Some worry about being too alarmist, while others worry about communicating the data clearly. One American…
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Statistics Behind the Headlines: Reproducibility and Reporting | Stats + Stories Episode 322
How do you learn about what’s going on in the world? Did a news headline grab your attention? Did a news story report on recent research? What do you need to…
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Making Ethical Decisions Is Hard | Stats + Stories Episode 321
What fundamental values should data scientists and statisticians bring to their work? What principles should guide the work of data scientists and…
Stats + StoriesOpening Day Statistics | Stats + Stories Baseball Special
Welcome to Stats+Stories today we are trying something a bit different, with Major League Baseball’s opening day just hours away from the release of this…
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The Art of Writing for Data Science | Stats + Stories Episode 320
Communicating clearly about data can be difficult but it’s also crucial if you want audiences to understand your work. Whether it’s through writing or speaking…
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Health Benefits of Riding an Electric Bike | Stats + Short Stories Episode 319
Hybrid cars are everywhere now but what is your best option if you want to feel the wind in your hair, or at least under your helmet and you want to get a…
Stats + StoriesSuffragette Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 318
Dr Altea Lorenzo-Arribas is a socio-economic statistician at Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) working in collaboration with researchers at the…
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Math and Music | Stats + Stories Episode 317
Long after Harry Nilsson said, “one is the loneliest number,” and after Bob Seger sang about feeling like a number, music streaming services are using data to…
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Statistics Behind the Headlines: Social Media and Mental Health | Stats + Stories Episode 316
How do you learn about what’s going on in the world? Did a news headline grab your attention? Did a news story report on recent research? What do you need to…
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The Info Graphic Visionary | Stats + Stories Episode 315
Good data visualization can catapult a news story or research article from ho hum to extraordinary. A new book series is exploring the careers of information…
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The Algorithm of Love | Stats + Stories Episode 314
According to the Pew Research Center, three in ten US adults say they've used a dating app, with Tinder, Match and Bumble being the apps most likely to have…
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Proctoring Problems | Stats + Stories Episode 313
Remember the pressure of taking a test when the teacher was glaring at you, daring your eyes to roam. Cheating was not a temptation unless your were desperate…
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Researching Human Trafficking | Stats + Stories Episode 312
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics the number of people prosecuted for human trafficking offenses has more than doubled between 2011 and 2021…