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
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…
Comparing and assessing Covid-19 tests
Image created by Russell TateThis article explores what people mean when they talk about testing…
Nathan GreenMay 19, 2020
The many definitions of a Covid-19 death toll
Photo by Dan Burton on UnsplashThis note considers the different measures of the death toll…
Simon BriscoeMay 13, 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
