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Human Rights Data Analysis Group Lead Statistician Kristian Lum speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7th, 2018, in San Francisco, California.

Social Justice

Justice by the Numbers: Meet the Statistician Trying to Fix Bias in Criminal Justice Algorithms

When the underlying data they rely on is incomplete—and it often is—the growing use of machine learning tools in America's criminal justice system can have devastating effects.

Katia Savchuk

Americans Are Now More Likely to Die of Opioid Overdoses Than Car Crashes

Overdoses on opioid drugs—including heroin, prescription painkillers, and certain street drugs—were the top cause of unintentional, preventable deaths in the United States in 2017.

Francie Diep

By 2020, the U.S. government wants more than 60 percent of American babies to be breastfeeding at six months of age.

News in Brief

The U.S. Birth Rate Is Still Falling

But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Kate Wheeling

Education

The Role of Big Data in Science’s Reproducibility Crisis

The reproducibility crisis is driven, in part, by invalid statistical analyses that are from data-driven hypotheses.

Kai Zhang

The Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

News in Brief

EPA Policing of Environmental Violations Plummeted in 2018

Environmental Protection Agency enforcement fell to 10-year lows in 2017, but 2018's numbers may be even lower.

Francie Diep

Police respond to the site of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 27th, 2018.

Anti-Black and Anti-Semitic Attacks Top the FBI’s 2017 Records for Hate Crimes

City, state, tribal, and other law enforcement agencies reported more than 7,000 hate crimes to the FBI in 2017, according to numbers the FBI released on Tuesday.

Francie Diep

Chicago Police guard evidence near a murder scene in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on July 27th, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois.

News in Brief

Chicago’s Murder Problem Could Be Worse

The city has reputation for violence, but without some of the best trauma centers the situation could be much worse.

Eric Ferkenhoff & Darnell Little

Education

Modern Scientists Are Wrong Far More Than You Think

Statisticians have shown that many scientific findings are wrong, and without an increase in statistical know-how for scientists it'll continue happening.

Irineo Cabreros