The world is full of uncertainty: accidents, storms, unruly financial markets, noisy communications. The world is also full of data. Probabilistic modeling and the related field of statistical ...

This is The Week in Data, our data journalism roundup. Here you’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet. Mass shootings: ...

Probability calculations determine the chance of a specific event occurring. This calculation factors in the number of positive events with respect to the total number of possible results. When you ...

At long last, the Federal Reserve is on the verge of resuming rate cuts. The Federal Reserve last cut the Federal Funds Rate ...

The global financial services company said "hard data" was pointing to a prolonged period of difficulty for the U.S. economy.

Some economists are predicting that US recession risk is rising, and a downturn could arrive before the year is out, but the ...