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Small Island Statistics in a World of Big Data
9th June 2014
Author: Paula McLeod St Helena is a small island heading for big change. One of the most isolated islands in the world, St Helena has been used as a stopover for passing ships on the pre-Suez canal...
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Swallowing the Bitter Pill: England, the Premier League and the World Cup
14th May 2014
Author and artwork: Patrick Rhodes Discussions abound about England’s chances at the 2014 edition of the World Cup. For a country which has produced elite football players such as Gary Neville,...
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Online Panel Research: A Data Quality Perspective with author Mario Callegaro
8th May 2014
This month, Wiley is proud to publish Online Panel Research: A Data Quality Perspective by Mario Callegaro, a survey research scientist based at Google. This book provides new insights into the...
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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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Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust: The Evolution of Passing in the NFL
31st January 2014
Author and artwork: Patrick Rhodes Introduction "Three yards and a cloud of dust" - that's how Woody Hayes described his "crunching, frontal assault of muscle against muscle", the offense that...
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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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The Rise, Fall and Rise of English Triple Crown Racing Speeds
9th September 2013
Author and artwork: Patrick Rhodes A horse with a crimson “6” displayed on either side of its girth processes to the parade ring. There are people milling about, looking over “Six” as well...
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