Archive Vaccine rollouts, school testing and contact tracing could all be improved – here’s how Photo by Steven Cornfield on UnsplashA bitter lesson of the past month is that viruses…Sylvia RichardsonFebruary 8, 2021
Archive Returning to schools and universities in the time of coronavirus: some statistical suggestions Pupils returned to school in England, Wales and Northern Ireland after the summer break mainly…Giovanni Sebastiani and Julian StanderOctober 7, 2020
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Archive Now more than ever, African governments need reliable data Community surveillance in times of Covid-19: A TB Reach health worker in Tanzania visits a…Sandra Alba, Christina Mergenthaler and Roland KielmanApril 30, 2020
Archive Visualising the pandemic: interviews with data journalists covering Covid-19 Photo by Brian McGowan on UnsplashIn many parts of the world, the outcome of the…Andrew GarthwaiteApril 21, 2020
Archive 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
Archive 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
Archive Why we need more coronavirus tests than we think Photo by Vincent Ghilione on UnsplashIn the US, President Trump has said that testing for…James J. CochranApril 9, 2020
Archive 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
Archive 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
Archive 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
News A World War II investigation, updated for the modern era © IWM ( FLM 2000)"In the early morning of 13 June 1944, one week after…Brian TarranOctober 9, 2019
Archive 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
Archive Past winners and finalists of the Significance/YSS writing competition If you are thinking of entering our annual writing competition for early-career statisticians, we recommend…Brian TarranJanuary 10, 2019
Archive Still running against the odds: revisiting the London Marathon ballot Monday 15 October had a lot of people eagerly awaiting the postman to deliver the…Anthony HatswellOctober 29, 2018
Archive You can trust the polls in 2018, if you read them carefully On the morning of 8 November 2016, many Americans went to bed confident that Hillary…Josh Pasek and Michael TraugottSeptember 27, 2018
Archive A time to kill: Great British serial killers "Serial killer" is a term customarily used to refer to a person who has murdered…Charlotte Moragh Jones-ToddDecember 19, 2017
Archive Should we worry that half of Americans trust their gut to tell them what’s true? Have you ever thought to yourself, “I’ll bet that’s true,” before you had all the…R. Kelly GarrettOctober 2, 2017
Archive 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