Previously, I worked with Lawrence Mower from the Palm Beach Post, Philip Stark from UC Berkeley, and Richard Arratia from USC to expose ticket aggregators in Florida, and since then similar problems have been observed in Massachusetts and Ohio. But these are topped by the situation in Georgia, where one can easily find more than…
A new series of articles by Peter Mucha at The Philadelphia Inquirer gives some new insight into Joan Ginther, who won four big prizes from Texas Lottery scratcher tickets. (I helped out a little with the article.) Ginther was famously profiled in a 2011 article in Harper’s titled “The luckiest woman on earth“.
I did some mathematical consulting for an investigative report about lottery hijinks done by the Palm Beach Post. The Florida lottery responded quickly and raided the stores frequented by the top suspects. Update (5/16/14): The Florida lottery has now suspended sales at 11 more stores, bringing the total to 14. Update (6/1/14): Louis Johnson, the top…
My upcoming general audience lectures for spring 2014, with date and venue: 4/2: Emory University, with Lawrence Mower 4/24: Tufts University 4/28: UCLA, with Lawrence Mower and Philip Stark 6/27: University of Montana
See me talking on CNN Newsroom today with Martin Savidge around 7:30pm eastern.