Beyoncé is seen as the role model, the quintessential example of a hip-hop generation woman of iconic proportion, but are we paying attention to the details? Beyoncé is an all-inclusive example of ...

Outliers deviate from the norm—significantly enough to give marketers pause. But outliers can tell us more about our data, how we gather it, and what is in it, if we examine the entire data set ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in March 2021. It is being published to commemorate five years of Off the Charts—a weekly, subscriber-only ...

Genome typing is the simultaneous genotyping of tens to hundreds of marker loci from across the genome in a single or few experiments (for example, by PCR amplification). The population-genomics ...

It’s pretty rare that a pollster calls his own survey an “outlier.” But that’s exactly what happened last week after a Monmouth University poll showed an approximate three-way tie between Bernie ...

Most information in linkage analysis for quantitative traits comes from pairs of relatives that are phenotypically most discordant or concordant. Confounding this, within-family outliers from ...

This article explains how to programmatically identify and deal with outlier data (it's a follow-up to "Data Prep for Machine Learning: Missing Data"). Suppose you have a data file of loan ...

After previously detailing how to examine data files and how to identify and deal with missing data, Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now uses a full code sample and step-by-step directions ...