Archive Senators vote in favour of plan to scrap Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Puerto Rico's senators have approved a plan to dismantle the island's independent Institute of Statistics (PRIS).…Brian TarranApril 9, 2018
Archive Data, debt and disaster – and a fight for independence – in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico is in bad shape. Its government is burdened by a debt of $70…Robert Langkjær-BainFebruary 2, 2018
Archive Ask a statistician: What is the calorific cost of McDonald’s revenue growth? Robin Bray-Hurren, a calligrapher and printmaker from South London, asks: "In order for McDonald’s to…Brian TarranMarch 1, 2016
Archive Odd Statistical Snippet of the week: Voltaire and the statistician who won the lottery and proved that the earth is not round I was listening with half an ear (as one does) to Melvyn Bragg’s academic-intellectual-historical-philosophical-scientific educate-us-all-in-things-that-every-civilised-person-ought-to-know-but-probably-doesn’t…Julian ChampkinMay 4, 2012