Picturing the Great Migration
This design essay is about the creation of two graphics for the October issue of…
RJ AndrewsNovember 21, 2017
The Great Migration: A Graphics Novel
In our October 2017 issue, RJ Andrews and Howard Wainer imagine a collaboration between two data-storytellers…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
