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In 1979, Mr Tony Barlow was interviewed by the BBC. He had a nice house…

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Welcome to another instalment of Significance magazine’s new “In conversation with…” series of audio interviews.…

Brian TarranApril 6, 2020

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“The key to understanding the meaning of race is understanding power,” writes Angela D. Saini.…

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In 2012, the Harvard Business Review declared data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st…

Jordi PratsAugust 21, 2018

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The Royal Statistical Society's Christmas Quiz is highly regarded for the level of challenge it…

Jim NortonDecember 19, 2016

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Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/umairadeeb/The narrative cliff-hanger is a fiendish device – ramping up drama and tension only…

Richard ValeApril 21, 2016

In September 2015, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC)…

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Ars Conjectandi is not a book that non-statisticians will have heard of, nor one that…

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‘Essentially all models are wrong, but some are useful’. That quotation comes from George Box,…