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How does the scientific method really work? It's probably more complicated than you think. In this article, we apply it rigorously to "prove" ?=3. This will highlight the actually mechanism of the scientific method, its limits, and how much messages of experiments are often deformed!

Carnegie Mellon statistics professor Cosma Shalizi considers the differences and similarities between statistics and data science.

What’s the difference between machine learning, deep learning, big data, statistics, decision & risk analysis, probability, fuzzy logic, and all the rest?

Free Wolfram|Alpha tool to analyze your Facebook data. Compute statistics: posting activity, most liked post, words most used, friends' geography, age and genders... more than a dozen reports.

Europe's graduates are finding it costlier to study - and harder to get a job at the end of it all. So how many universities - and students - are there in Europe's biggest countries? We look at the statistics for the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland.

Utilizing data analysis capabilities in Wolfram|Alpha Pro, Stephen Wolfram looks at his quantified self based on his large collection of lifelogging data.

A selection of the best of the best of OWNI's weekly round-up of data on the web, from a year that's seen so many wonderful, innovative, inventive, colorful, moving and funny data projects.

Open access to 703,281 e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics

A small number of randomly selected legislators should make parliaments more effective, say a group of IgNobel prize-winning scientists. (Changeons le mode de scrutin !)

Imagine if, way back at the start of the scientific enterprise, someone had said, "What we really need is a control group for science - people who will behave exactly like scientists, doing experiments, publishing journals, and so on, but whose field of study is completely empty.