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Statistics are used to generate some random numbers in computer science. In other situations, complex functions are used, however for some computer science applications, a statistical model is developed to compute random numbers. There are many sites describing this, but wiki is the best!

anyqs: The article says "more women are entering college, which in turn is changing the relative popularity of disciplines," but doesn't say exactly what percentage of degrees awarded in each discipline go to women. I'm wondering what that percentage is. It would have been nice to have seen the number of degrees awarded to women and men in each discipline visualized with the number of degrees awarded.

anyqs: It is true that more students are earning science degrees than they did twenty years ago, but it is also true that more students are earning degrees, period. Note the growth in arts, music, and business degrees awarded. It would be good to know the percentage of the total increase in degrees awarded for each discipline.

Rather a dull read - A lot of more interesting articles that use statistics really dilute them before putting them in the actual body of the text (i.e. everything in Popular Science).

The BioLogos Forum is pleased to present this infographic about science and faith in America. The graphic, titled "America's View on Evolution and Creationism," uses data from Gallup Research, The New York Times, and the Pew Research Center to show what Americans currently believe about the origins of humans.

The illustration may look less than scientific, but the concept and the presentation are really cool.

This article contains axiomatic probability because it checks the ways this specific event can occur (West Antarctic Sheet collapsing) and compares it to the number of outcomes that can occur (whether it collapses or remains). 

probability: empirical since it is based on an experiment

Non-native Burmese pythons introduced to Florida 30 years ago are likely causing mammal decline in the area (the probabilities presented in the article are subjective).

Subjective probability, however simulations can be run large numbers of times to give a more empirically subjective probability.

*civil engineering facilities

Statistics are used to compare sorting algorithms in computer science. The most commonly used way to do this is by analyzing their "Big O" value.

This is a sister website of the very popular www.speedtest.net, which does many millions of internet download/upload tests every month. Aggregating that data across the world provides some pretty robust statistics on regional and national connectivity speed. You probably never knew South Dakota had the second highest average download rate in the country. http://www.netindex.com/download/2,1/United-States/ I'm guessing that's related to their cheap power and ample space in encouraging data centers to move in.

This is a branch of Computer Science, springboarded by my Computer Engineering major.