Benford’s Law

Benford’s law

Few days ago, I was introduced to the Benford’s law of distribution. Looking up the internet for accessible explanation, I came across a basic introduction with very interesting explanation on Khan Academy. Sal mentioned the typical example of the world countries populations follow this fascinating distribution function.

After few seconds of thinking about it, I decided to confirm this claim, So, I quickly pulled the data from wikipedia and coded a quick and dirty experiment. And sure it works as you can see bellow

Code and data can be found in my GitHub