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“Our job is to provide tools and the mapping that can bring statistics to life”: An interview with former OS Director Vanessa Lawrence
6th May 2014
Last month Dr Vanessa Lawrence stepped down as the Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping authority. She has served the organisation for 14...
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Launch of FiveThirtyEight: An interview with Lead Writer Carl Bialik
17th March 2014
FiveThirtyEight is due to launch today, the website and brainchild of Nate Silver, Editor-in-Chief of its blog formerly at The New York Times who correctly predicted 49 out of 50 states in the...
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“The world of statistics has offered me a wonderful career.” Robert Groves looks back on heading the US Census Bureau
10th March 2014
Robert Groves is currently the Provost of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., as well as Gerard Campbell Professor in the University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He is...
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IYOS: A Retrospective
20th December 2013
Author: Ronald Wasserstein, Statistics2013 Steering Committee member and American Statistical Association executive director My how time flies when you’re having fun! It seems only like...
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The Norm Chronicles: Authors Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter on their collaboration and its critical reception so far
18th September 2013
The Norm Chronicles: Stories by numbers and danger is a collaboration by journalist and former producer of BBC Radio 4’s More or Less Michael Blastland and Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton...
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Social Networks and their Economics: An interview with author Daniel Birke
6th September 2013
This week, Wiley is proud to publish Social Networks and their Economics: Influencing Consumer Choice by new author Daniel Birke, Visiting Researcher at Aston Business School, Birmingham, who...
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Future challenges of teaching mathematics and statistics: Interview with Guy Lecturer, Stella Dudzic
30th August 2013
Every year the Royal Statistical Society appoints a lecturer to tour schools to increase the visibility of statistics with their talk, named after British physician and statistician William Guy....
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“Definitely not just statisticians should read this Journal” – An insight into Research Synthesis Methods with Dr Hannah Rothstein
21st March 2013
Dr Hannah Rothstein has been appointed as the new Co-Editor-in-Chief of Research Synthesis Methods, taking over duties from Mark Lipsey this year. The Journal is the official Journal of...
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Radio 4’s More or Less: Behind the scenes with presenter Tim Harford
7th March 2013
More or Less is a BBC Radio 4 programme which discusses statistical issues raised in the news, politics and everyday life, as well as what's fun about numbers. The programme was originally presented...
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Data visualization, social stats and how stats students love to party
23rd November 2012
Professor Danny Dorling is currently based at the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has recently written a book for Wiley, The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure,...
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