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This week is about helping people see data for what it is and avoiding poor choices.

NYPD arrested the wrong man, because facial recognition marked a match. Maria Cramer and Kashmir Hill report for the New York Times: Like Mr. Williams, the culprit was Black, had a thick beard and ...

The New York Times estimated political bias in Grok's models. They entered questions from an ideology survey and evaluated the chatbot's answers over time. By July 11, xAI's updates had ...

A Tesla Model S, while on "Autopilot", crashed into a parked truck, killing one and injuring another. Tesla claimed in a lawsuit that the data about the crash could not be found. So law ...

Pew Research asked U.S. adults if certain behaviors in public, such as cursing or smoking, were acceptable. The above are the results for four age groups. For every behavior, the percentage of peop ...

Gordon Hart put together a fun interactive atlas of space. Click on objects, pan, and zoom. It's not comprehensive but not bad for a side project: This was a fun side project over Winter Brea ...

TSA PreCheck allows U.S. travelers to skip the part of airport security where you take your shoes off. For NYT's the Upshot, Ben Blatt and Christine Chung analyzed wait times at a handful of ...

The U.S. federal government does not release official numbers for the cuts to health agencies, so ProPublica tracked changes to federal employee directories to estimate. They estimate 20,500 worker ...

For WaPo's Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam goes looking for American and British words, finding the most statistical action in spoken words over written. We used our new measure to focus o ...

Here are tools to use, datasets to poke at, and resources to learn from.