An interactive explorer for Benford's Law across real datasets

5 comments

• yellow_postit 3 minutes ago
  Neat! Benford’s Law was the first topic I dove into in undergrad math that got a minor publication. Given how well known it is for forensic accounting I’ve always wanted to look into convictions and see if the “average” fraudster has wised up and produces more realistic distributions.
• jmpman 1 hour ago
  I'd recommend allowing 2 digit exploration. I've used it in the past when analyzing hard drive failure logical block addresses.
• cwmoore 1 hour ago
  Interesting that it was first discovered with noticing the “garden path” in the front pages of a book of logarithm tables (in 1881).
• anArbitraryOne 52 minutes ago
  It's interesting how all base 10 numbers identify as non binary
• stefantalpalaru 59 minutes ago
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