Archive Picturing the Great Migration This design essay is about the creation of two graphics for the October issue of…RJ AndrewsNovember 21, 2017
Archive The Great Migration: A Graphics Novel In our October 2017 issue, RJ Andrews and Howard Wainer imagine a collaboration between two data-storytellers…Brian TarranOctober 9, 2017
Archive Ask a statistician: What are the chances of World War III? In the second instalment of our new 'Ask A Statistician' column, Peter McIntyre, a pharmaceutical…Brian TarranJanuary 5, 2016
Archive The Great British Bayes-off: How much difference (statistically) does a soggy bottom make? Macaroons, Swedish Princess Cake, and… hemp-flavoured bread? These days a simple Victoria sponge won’t cut…Annie HerbertDecember 11, 2015
Archive Is India’s heatwave a freak event? A heatwave over India that started on May 21 and has produced India’s highest recorded…Hugo WinterJune 2, 2015
Archive Frog kissing. Or, why do we never learn? A friend pointed me to this story about the average number of men (or rather…Robin EvansFebruary 14, 2014
Archive Standing up for Science: beating the silence There are a lot of scary things to face when doing a PhD: supervisor's ideas…Linda WijlaarsJune 20, 2013
Archive George Box, (1919-2013): a wit, a kind man and a statistician ‘Essentially all models are wrong, but some are useful’. That quotation comes from George Box,…Julian ChampkinApril 4, 2013
Archive PhDs couldn’t tell an actor from a renowned scientist Forty years ago, a singularly interesting lecture was held at the University of Southern California…Mikhail SimkinJuly 4, 2011