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Covid-19 tweets analysis for human emotion detection

Photo by visuals on UnsplashSocial media is a place for people to share their feelings,…

Md Yasin Kabir and Sanjay MadriaMarch 18, 2021

President Donald Trump and VP Mike Pence

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The US economy: Trump or trend?

Photo by History in HD on UnsplashAt the 2020 Republican National Convention, Assistant to the…

James J. CochranOctober 14, 2020

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A more transparent way to estimate and report daily Covid-19 deaths

Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on Unsplash“How many people have died in recent days…

Oliver Stoner and Theo EconomouMay 27, 2020

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Some comparisons between Italy and the UK for Covid-19: March to April 2020

Photo by KOBU Agency on UnsplashWith the rapid global spread of Covid-19 in recent weeks,…

Giovanni Sebastiani, Julian Stander and Mario Cortina BorjaApril 21, 2020

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A statistician’s guide to coronavirus numbers

Photo by Isaac Quesada on UnsplashThe Royal Statistical Society’s Statistical Ambassadors have collated an essential…

RSS Statistical AmbassadorsApril 9, 2020

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How many people are infected with Covid-19?

Photo by Zhang Kenny on UnsplashIn order to answer the most pressing questions we have…

Tarak ShahApril 9, 2020

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How do epidemiologists know how many people will get Covid-19?

How many people are infected now with the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2? How many will be…

Patrick BallApril 9, 2020

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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

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Statistical analysis, Strictly on request

I don’t watch Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC’s hit reality dance show. I have seen…

Brian TarranDecember 11, 2017

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Predicting the UK’s snap general election

https://unsplash.com/@jamie452I have decided to build a model to try to predict the results of the…

Gianluca BaioMay 30, 2017

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How sharp was the decline in live births in Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of communist regimes?

December 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist…

Jekaterina Kremneva, Angie Wade and Mario Cortina BorjaDecember 16, 2016

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Does Donald Trump “defy all odds”?

When FiveThirtyEight editor Nate Silver predicted in June that Donald Trump had a 20 per…

Bernard Baffour and Joshua BonOctober 19, 2016

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Making maps

In an extract from her book, Big Data: Does Size Matter?, Timandra Harkness meets data-based…

Timandra HarknessAugust 16, 2016

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Is ‘you know who’ dead? Predicting the future in Game of Thrones

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

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Statistically speaking… How long can Pope Francis expect to live?

When elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church on 13 March 2013, the Argentinian priest…

Julian Stander, Luciana Dalla Valle and Mario Cortina BorjaFebruary 18, 2016

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Angus Deaton: a statistician’s economist

Ian PrestonOctober 13, 2015

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How to identify goal scoring ability in football

The transfer market in football is a strange beast. For anyone who doesn't know how…

Ian McHale & Łukasz SzczepańskiAugust 19, 2015

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(Un)representative democracy: where are all the female candidates?

Image: Catherine Bebbington/Parliamentary Copyright. Parliamentary Copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament.In a…

Mario Cortina BorjaApril 25, 2015

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The Phillips Curve revisited

In my first article, A short overview of the Phillips Curve, I outlined the complicated…

Michael MernaghSeptember 19, 2013

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A short overview of the Phillips Curve

In modern economics, central banks around the world have become engrossed in closely monitoring the…

Michael MernaghAugust 21, 2013