Everyday Statistics, with Eddie Davila

Learn how to decode the statistics that pop up on a daily basis—from political polls to football scores. Eddie Davila explores a different real-world topic each week.

Introduction

• The statistics of everyday life

Previous Installments

• Political polls
• Different sports, different stats
• Test scores
• Data collection
• Birthdays in the USA
• The house always wins
• Wisdom of the crowd
• The pay gap at Uber
• Cancer survival rates
• Television ratings
• Historic stats stories
• The one percent
• New Year's Eve
• Influenza
• Winter is coming
• The Super Bowl
• Genetics
• Relationships
• The box office
• Unemployment
• Waiting in lines
• Sleep
• March Madness
• Measuring what's important in business
• Baseball
• Income tax statistics
• College waiting lists
• The normal distribution is everywhere
• Horse racing statistics
• Statistics and the insurance industry
• Restaurant statistics
• Catching criminals with statistics
• Getting directions from statistics
• Lyme disease
• Quality control in manufacturing
• Zoo animal statistics
• Earthquakes
• Statistics of hunting
• Transcontinental convoy
• Moon landing
• Summer movies
• Reliability
• Woodstock
• Hurricanes
• P-hacking
• Salaries
• Dow Jones
• Population
• Epidemiology
• Rock stars
• Acceptance sampling
• The value of my change
• In-game win probabilities
• Stock market ups and downs
• Prohibition
• Bayes' theorem
• Divorce
• The U.S. Census
• English
• Santa Claus
• Parenting
• Proportions of coins
• Safe travel
• Election polling methodologies
• Is your data any good?
• Storytelling with data
• The middle of my data
• The ubiquitous bell curve
• Decoding polling results
• What is an outlier?
• Statistical bias
• The importance of regression analysis
• Understanding probabilities
• Statistics tools
• Modern organizations use statistics
• Combinations
• Measuring variation
• Sample space
• Election win probabilities
• Cognitive bias
• Forecasting
• Toilet paper
• Winning streaks
• Coffee
• Vaccines
• Superfans
• US Presidents
• The cost of owning a pet
• Funny movies
• Success in the music industry
• Home Improvement
• Youth sports
• Mental health
• Chocolate
• Baby statistics
• Books
• Commutes
• Farms
• Hip hop
• Mass transit
• Major league baseball
• Placebos
• Podcasts
• Social media
• Supply chains