In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

Cynthia Frelund dives into the numbers to quantify the impact of Tackle Probability using Next Gen Stats' Tackle Probability model. A look back at the five fastest ball carriers from Week 17 of the ...

I was thinking more about David Brooks’s anti-data column from earlier in the week, and I realized what is really bothering me. Brooks expresses skepticism about numbers, about the limitations of raw ...

Next Gen Stats compares the Atlanta Falcons' final plays against Philadelphia Eagles in the Week 1 of the 2018 season vs. the 2017 Divisional Round matchup. A look back at the five fastest ball ...

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the ...

During a recent casual conversation with someone who has been intimately involved in the NHL for decades, he jokingly said this: “You ever think that all of these off-ice officials are actually the ...

The premise is weak. The take is ice cold. And the overall belief that advanced statistics are driving away new fans from embracing Major League Baseball is absolutely absurd. That is what Joel ...

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread From the Data. By Charles Wheelan. Norton; 282 pages; $26.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk DATA are everywhere these days; the problem is making sense of ...