The Department of Labor is proposing yet another rule change to classification of independent contractors and so Brent, Nathan, and Steve are here to make sense of what the criteria was, is, and will potentially be in this episode that’s all about economic independence and what work makes you an employee.

Inflation hits hard, but it can be tough to tell how hard because of how it’s measured, in this episode Brent, Steve, and Nathan talk about the problems when it comes to thinking about inflation and whether it can even be measured.

With the expansion of Large Language Models, Nathan, Steve, and Brent decided to take some time to look at how different jobs and career paths could be affected. Are we heading for a major crisis or is it overstated? The Of Significance team breaks it all down!

Nathan, Brent, and Steve talk about the prevailing wage, how it’s calculated, and why the statistics around it can dramatically change incentives and behavior. Brent finds a new way to rank himself.

This is the final episode in a series on Sports Statistics where Nathan, Steve, and Brent explore the mathematical thinking deployed by professional sports teams. In this episode, they look at point scoring strategies in basketball and baseball to understand whether people respond to new data or if some strategies are simply suboptimal.

This is the second episode in a series on Sports Statistics where Nathan, Steve, and Brent explore the mathematical thinking deployed by professional sports teams. In this episode, they are once again joined by Sush Jain to explore the concept of momentum: how well is a team doing and how well will they keep doing before things turn around?

This is the first episode in a series on Sports Statistics where Nathan, Steve, and Brent explore the mathematical thinking deployed by professional sports teams. In this episode, they are joined by Sush Jain to finally figure out if the famous Hot Hand is a statistical reality or a mathematical myth.

This is the first episode in a series on Sports Statistics where Nathan, Steve, and Brent explore the mathematical thinking deployed by professional sports teams. In this episode, they are joined by Sush Jain to finally figure out if the famous Hot Hand is a statistical reality or a mathematical myth.

The European Union is requiring companies to report on pay differences for equally valued work within member states and it means companies need to start doing these analyses before it’s too late. To talk about the complexity of the new mandate and the ways these pay analyses are different from a US context, Nathan, Brent, and Steve are joined by Chris Jones of Paul Hastings. They’re going across the pond to cross reference their numbers!

Nathan, Brent, and Steve wish the Stat Pack a happy holiday by going through Spotify Wrapped's calculation techniques and share some of their own data and Spotify ages.