World Mental Health Day 2023: Those struggling are not outliers
World Mental Health Day 2023: Mental health conditions are complex and identifying them is not…
Jordi PratsOctober 10, 2023
R book review: Two approaches to learning data science
In 2012, the Harvard Business Review declared data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st…
How Gladstone linked classical studies and statistics
Having a passion for statistics may not be well understood by friends. Significance readers would…
Jordi PratsFebruary 25, 2015
Not every change is climate change
It's good living in Provence, the region in south-east France famous for its lifestyle, good…
Jordi PratsFebruary 21, 2014
Fireballs falling to Earth: Part 3
The subject of today's article is impact risk and concludes the three-part series looking at…
Jordi PratsMarch 28, 2013
Fireballs falling to Earth: Part 2
In the first part of this article we saw that meteorites fall to Earth at…
Jordi PratsMarch 26, 2013
Fireballs falling to Earth: Part 1
Thanks to Russian drivers and amateur cameramen, a few weeks ago we had the privilege…
Jordi PratsMarch 25, 2013
The lab of the thinking dead
This is a Halloween statistical tale. Believe me, it will scare you. It's about a…
Jordi PratsOctober 31, 2012
The colour of e-money
As the saying goes, "money talks". But money, and especially electronic money, does more than…
Jordi PratsApril 12, 2012
A bet on life: Irregular immigration
Year after year thousands of irregular immigrants from North and sub-Saharan Africa risk their lives…
Jordi PratsJanuary 31, 2012
Turkey, chickens, poetry… and statistics!
Every weekday on my way to university I walk past the US Consulate General in…
Jordi PratsNovember 25, 2011
Speedy neutrinos, unrushed science and detective stories
By now, you surely have heard all about neutrinos travelling faster than light during the…
Jordi PratsSeptember 30, 2011
Climates of war: when tempers grow hot
At present, great preoccupation exists about climate change effects in many areas. A standard methodology…
Jordi PratsSeptember 12, 2011
Harry Potter and Pareto’s fat tail
Publishing a book is almost always a gamble, since it is very difficult to predict…
Jordi PratsAugust 10, 2011
Is reducing CO2 emissions a demographic problem?
Energy related world CO2 emissions reached a threateningly high historical maximum of 30,600 millions of…
Jordi PratsJuly 21, 2011
Colombia, dripping with water
The topical image that comes into mind when thinking about tropical countries is that of…
Jordi PratsJune 7, 2011
Nuclear risk
News from Japan is getting worse and worse. After an earthquake with a magnitude of…
Jordi PratsMarch 16, 2011
A spoonful of sugar helps
Every day beverages containing caffeine and glucose keep us company from morning to night: a…
Jordi PratsFebruary 14, 2011
