The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Italian mobility
Photo by David T on UnsplashThe pandemic of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) triggered by the SARS-CoV-2…
Francesco Finazzi and Alessandro FassòApril 16, 2020
How many people are infected with Covid-19?
Photo by Zhang Kenny on UnsplashIn order to answer the most pressing questions we have…
What to make of the coronavirus “mortality rate”? Communicating risk effectively
Photo by Markus Spiske on UnsplashLanguage is powerful, and how we use it subconsciously shapes…
Narcyz GhineaApril 9, 2020
Significance at the Joint Statistical Meetings
Significance is currently in Denver, Colorado, for the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings. We have a…
Brian TarranJuly 27, 2019
LGBT+ resources for statisticians and data scientists
Photo by Steve Johnson on UnsplashIn professional and classroom settings, we strive to communicate the…
DonnaMay 30, 2019
Statistics in court: An interview with a juror
Statisticians have a crucial role to play in ensuring fairness and justice in the legal…
Kelly H. ZouApril 9, 2019
What is the bootstrap?
Bradley Efron (pictured) was awarded the 2018 International Prize in Statistics for the creation of…
James J. CochranNovember 23, 2018
Misunderstanding the global burden of alcohol
Harmful alcohol consumption is known to cause several diseases and many deaths. A study published…
Kari PoikolainenNovember 19, 2018
Does Taylor Swift have a big (and bad) reputation? Twitter scraping using R
"Big reputation, big reputation, ooh you and me we’ve got big reputations." Taylor Swift released her…
Jennifer SnapeOctober 16, 2018
Why my father had to defend decades’ worth of data in court
Back in the 1990s, British miners were fighting for compensation for diseases linked to coal…
Jonny JacobsenOctober 8, 2018
R book review: Two approaches to learning data science
In 2012, the Harvard Business Review declared data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st…
Jordi PratsAugust 21, 2018
Cargo-cult statistics and scientific crisis
Poor practice is catching up with science,1-3 manifesting in part in the failure of results…
Philip B. Stark and Andrea SaltelliJuly 5, 2018
Letter in response to “Key decisions”, page 42, December 2017
I usually enjoy Allan Reese’s columns on aspects of data graphics, but I was significantly less…
Brian TarranApril 6, 2018
Facebook data harvesting: what you need to know
Facebook makes most of its money from advertising, and – as the Cambridge Analytica scandal…
Gráinne Maedhbh Nic LochlainnApril 5, 2018
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
Graphical interpretations of data: Walking the line
“Best fit” line is one of the misleading terms that confuse occasional users of statistics.…
Allan ReeseJanuary 24, 2018
The Promise: When truth overshadows power
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is a prestigious event and a hot-spot for finding…
Levon DemirdjianDecember 11, 2017
Picturing the Great Migration
This design essay is about the creation of two graphics for the October issue of…
RJ AndrewsNovember 21, 2017
Plastic bag charge: Measuring success
In recent years, countries have passed legislation to charge shoppers for each new plastic bag…
Ronan McAdamOctober 10, 2017
Visualising regional data using the geofacet R package
Spatial data make an enormous contribution to our understanding of the world. They allow us to…
Stella Cangelosi, Luciana Dalla Valle and Julian StanderAugust 25, 2017
