What Is Benford's Law

Using Matplotlib to Plot a Live Graph of Benford’s Law in Python https://kushm.medium.com/using-matplotlib-to-plot-a-live-graph-of-benfords-law-in-python-79ec2e987694 13 comments 8/4/2021 python

Learn Rust With Benford's Law! https://gliderkite.github.io/posts/learn-rust-with-benford/ 11 comments 17/10/2020 rust

The NHL's 2013/14 regular season scoring numbers are awesome at proving Benford's Law http://mindfuckmath.com/post/82857113897/does-benfords-law-apply-to-scoring-during-the 6 comments 17/4/2014 hockey

Blowing mind Benford's law in a small ruby script https://github.com/bennacer860/benford_s_law 15 comments 19/6/2013 ruby

Benford's Law and subreddit subscribers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law 43 comments 16/6/2013 math

Benford's Law shown by Google's Ngram Viewer http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=one%2Ctwo%2Cthree%2Cfour%2Cfive%2Csix%2Cseven%2Ceight%2C+nine&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share= 3 comments 23/4/2013 math

Testing Benford's Law http://testingbenfordslaw.com 13 comments 28/6/2011 math

Benford’s Law Tests for Wikileaks Data http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=2234&cpage=1#comment-4809 5 comments 1/8/2010 math

Benford's Law (why so many numbers begin with 1) http://www.rexswain.com/benford.html 2 comments 4/8/2005 reddit.com

Does scale invariance explain Benford’s Law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law#Explanations 11 comments 2/4/2023 math

Using Benford’s Law to Detect Bitcoin Manipulation https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/15/using-benfords-law-to-detect-bitcoin-manipulation/ 16 comments 25/7/2021 technology

Benford's Law that all data scientists should know https://www.iamnagdev.com/?p=926 5 comments 18/8/2020 datascience

(x-post from ELI5) ELI5: How was Benford's Law derived by Simon Newcomb? http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-newcomb 6 comments 15/12/2014 math

Benford's Law and the distances to stars and galaxies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law 7 comments 30/5/2013 math

This planet obeys the law—stats on volcanic eruptions show pattern called Benford's Law http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/fun-with-numbers-volcanoes-obey-benfords-law.ars 22 comments 16/4/2012 science

Benford's Law - Why you should never try to defraud an engineer or mathematician! http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/march52012/index.html 83 comments 25/3/2012 math

Benford's law in action on my computer keyboard http://decabear.com/images/benford_dust.png 7 comments 28/4/2011 statistics

Benford's Law - Fabulous Adventures In Coding http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2005/01/12/351693.aspx 5 comments 16/11/2010 programming

Benford's Law, or the First Digit Phenomenon http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-first-digit-phenomenon/ 6 comments 8/8/2010 math

Can someone please explain Benford's Law to me in words, without using math, in a way I can understand it? This freaks me out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law 70 comments 12/12/2009 math

Benchmarking Benford's Law in Go, Crystal, Python and JavaScript https://blog.m5e.de/post/benchmarking-go-crystal-python-and-js/ 12 comments 29/8/2020 golang

Can you Identify Cheating? How does one apply Benford's Law to Electoral Politics? http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rigged-Elections-for-Romne-by-Michael-Collins-121022-13.html 10 comments 21/10/2014 statistics

Hey reddit, I analyzed the NH 2008 Primary results according to Benford's Law like the Professor did with the Iran Elections http://www.caseyeyring.com/node/5 16 comments 23/6/2009 math

Examples of Benford's Law in data sets - Fascinating video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8n26edbqlm 10 comments 17/4/2009 math

Could someone help me understand how to derive this equation for Benford's Law? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Mathematical_statement 10 comments 4/5/2011 math

Fact check: Deviation from Benford’s Law does not prove election fraud https://www.reuters.com/article/iduskbn27q3ai 18 comments 17/11/2020 politics

The Mathematics of Benford's Law -- A Primer. "[A] concise overview ... in a form accessible to scientists and students who have had first courses in calculus and probability." [abstract + link to PDF] https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07527 3 comments 18/9/2019 math

There's something maddeningly counter-intuitive about our number system, it's described by "Benford's Law" http://ponderabout.com/archives/2422/benford.aspx 25 comments 8/12/2009 cogsci

Not the First Digit! Using Benford's Law to Detect Fraudulent Scientific Data http://129.3.20.41/eps/othr/papers/0507/0507001.pdf 3 comments 16/9/2009 math

Nice little video about Benfords Law and its use in detecting fraud. It's pretty interesting that a seemingly random set of data usually follows that pattern. http://ovablastic.blogspot.com/2008/11/exploring-benfords-law.html 6 comments 11/11/2008 math

The special trick that helps identify dodgy stats: Using Benford's law, forensic statisticians can spot suspicious patterns in the raw numbers, and estimate the chances figures have been tampered with http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/16/bad-science-dodgy-stats 46 comments 18/9/2011 science

Benford's law applied to the Iranian election: "A less significant anomaly suggested by Benford's Law could be interpreted as an overestimate of candidate A's total vote count by several million votes." http://eprintweb.org/s/article/stat/0906.2789 19 comments 17/6/2009 math

For any given integer, the probability that the first digit is "1" is greater than that of it being "2", which is greater than that of it being "3", and so on... almost anywhere in nature where something is measured. I give you Benford's Law. Math bewilders me again. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/benford%27s_law 280 comments 3/5/2010 science