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
The US economy: Trump or trend?
Photo by History in HD on UnsplashAt the 2020 Republican National Convention, Assistant to the…
A more transparent way to estimate and report daily Covid-19 deaths
Photo by Hello I'm Nik đ on UnsplashâHow many people have died in recent days…
Oliver Stoner and Theo EconomouMay 27, 2020
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,…
A statisticianâs guide to coronavirus numbers
Photo by Isaac Quesada on UnsplashThe Royal Statistical Societyâs Statistical Ambassadors have collated an essential…
RSS Statistical AmbassadorsApril 9, 2020
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
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
Graphical interpretations of data: Walking the line
âBest fitâ line is one of the misleading terms that confuse occasional users of statistics.…
Allan ReeseJanuary 24, 2018
Statistical analysis, Strictly on request
I donât watch Strictly Come Dancing, the BBCâs hit reality dance show. I have seen…
Brian TarranDecember 11, 2017
Predicting the UKâs 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
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
Does Donald Trump âdefy all oddsâ?
When FiveThirtyEight editor Nate Silver predicted in June that Donald Trump had a 20 per…
Bernard Baffour and Joshua BonOctober 19, 2016
Making maps
In an extract from her book, Big Data: Does Size Matter?, Timandra Harkness meets data-based…
Timandra HarknessAugust 16, 2016
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 â ramping up drama and tension only…
Richard ValeApril 21, 2016
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
Angus Deaton: a statisticianâs economist
Illustration: © Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesA few years ago, former World Bank…
Ian PrestonOctober 13, 2015
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 & Ćukasz SzczepaĆskiAugust 19, 2015
(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
The Phillips Curve revisited
In my first article, A short overview of the Phillips Curve, I outlined the complicated…
Michael MernaghSeptember 19, 2013
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
