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To heroically understate the situation, I am not personally a fan of Christmas music. But…

When registering with a doctor’s surgery or booking a medical test at a hospital, the…

Statistics and journalism go hand-in-hand. Whether reporting on current trends, relaying political statements, or dissecting…

Taken at face value, David Cameron’s warning this week about risks in the global economy…

Tomorrow sees the release of The Imitation Game, a film chronicling the work of mathematician…

This year’s Ebola epidemic is one of the largest the world has ever seen, affecting…

The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa started over a year ago with a…

Do certain things happen because we expect them to happen? Jasper Fforde suggests so. The…

A few weeks back I was feeling fairly smug, having put a bit of money…

When I think ‘public health’ this week, two stories spring to mind - Ebola and…

Last month in Berlin, Kenyan athlete Dennis Kimetto broke the men’s Marathon world record running…

Onchocerciasis, or river blindness as it’s more commonly known, is a major public health problem…

Earlier this summer I went to a panel debate on the future of criticism in…

Welcome to the big data future. Correlation is in, causation is out. Old statistical sampling…

At Spotify, where I work, we have listeners in a large and growing numbers of…