After the pre-election polls spectacularly failed to predict a Conservative majority, many are seriously asking…
Oz FlanaganJune 11, 2015
A heatwave over India that started on May 21 and has produced India’s highest recorded…
Hugo WinterJune 2, 2015
In the run up to polling day earlier this month, a large number of opinion…
Nambassa NakatuddeMay 29, 2015
It is well known that human health changes with the seasons. Hippocrates, writing 2,500 years…
Mario Cortina BorjaMay 26, 2015
In the June 2015 issue of their magazine, Consumer Reports tries to convince me to…
Phil BirnbaumMay 22, 2015
There has been much wailing and gnashing of blogs since the dismal performance of the…
David SpiegelhalterMay 18, 2015
If the opinion polls had proved accurate, we would have woken up on the morning…
Leighton Vaughan WilliamsMay 11, 2015
By now, we’ve all heard of the addictive tile-mashing game called 2048. Last week, I…
Randy OlsonMay 5, 2015
One of the more interesting dynamics in British politics in recent years has been the…
Brian TarranApril 28, 2015
Image: Catherine Bebbington/Parliamentary Copyright. Parliamentary Copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament.In a…
Mario Cortina BorjaApril 25, 2015
Stand-up comedy is big business, at least at the top of the game. Kevin Hart’s…
Oz FlanaganApril 24, 2015
Credit: Jessica Seldon/DFID At the start of a disease outbreak, there is one statistic epidemiologists…
Brian TarranApril 20, 2015
I recently came across a couple of blog posts on the colours used in movies,…
Martin BellanderApril 17, 2015
Predicting the future is not easy, but there is no shortage of pundits willing to…
Timothy Martyn HillApril 9, 2015
You have probably heard that the price of crude oil has tumbled from $115 per…
Abbas KeshvaniApril 8, 2015
The weeping, gnashing of teeth and celebrating among the ODI (One Day International) cricket faithful…
Ray StefaniApril 2, 2015
Over the last few months, we have been developing a mobile app called OpenStreetCab. The…
Anastasios NoulasApril 1, 2015
General election outcomes in the UK are difficult to forecast. Even setting aside the 18…
Chris Hanretty, Benjamin Lauderdale & Nick VivyanMarch 25, 2015
The Polling Observatory forecasting model has been a long time in the making, and builds…
RobertMarch 24, 2015
