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Statistically significant: The US Supreme Court takes a viewCreative Commons Image Clearly Ambiguous under CC-BY licence

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

12 April 2011

A lawsuit over a cold remedy has forced the US Supreme Court into deciding what might be statistically significant.  Read more : Statistically significant: The US Supreme Court takes a view

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By Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University), Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

12 April 2011

With clean-up rates and reoffending numbers, discussions of crime often circle back to statistics. But are these 'facts' really such reliable witnesses?  Read more : Statistics and the law

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The Joy Of Stats: The Lady With A Data Visualisation Featuring: video,audio, The Open University

By Professor Hans Rosling (Guest), Dr Eileen Magnello (Guest), Professor David Spiegelhalter (Guest)

07 December 2010

 Famous for her lamp, it was the light shed by Florence Nightingale's statistics that really saved lives in great numbers.  Read more : The Joy Of Stats: The Lady With A Data Visualisation

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The Joy Of Stats: Meaningless and meaningful correlations Featuring: video,audio, The Open University

By Professor Hans Rosling (Guest), Sir Michael Marmot (Guest)

07 December 2010

 Just because two things might appear to be related, it doesn't mean they are - but it's the meaningful correlations that are the treasures of...  Read more : The Joy Of Stats: Meaningless and meaningful correlations

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The Joy Of Stats: How statistics make understanding foreign words simpler Featuring: video,audio, The Open University

By Professor Hans Rosling (Guest), Franz Och (Guest), Peter Norvig (Guest)

07 December 2010

Through a massive statistical analysis, Google have taught a machine to translate across dozens of languages pretty effectively.  Read more : The Joy Of Stats: How statistics make understanding foreign words simpler

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The Joy Of Stats: Above average Featuring: video,audio, The Open University

By Professor Hans Rosling (Guest), Sir Michael Marmot (Guest)

07 December 2010

 How many legs does the average Swede have? The surprising answer can tell us a lot about averages...  Read more : The Joy Of Stats: Above average

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The Joy Of Stats: Why you might go up a hill, but come down a crime victim Featuring: video,audio, The Open Univeristy

By Professor Hans Rosling (Guest), Eric Rodenbeck (Guest), Michal Migurski (Guest), Chris Vein (Guest)

25 November 2010

 Plotting San Francisco's crimes onto a topographical map revealed a surprising factor in crime rates: where you are on a hill.  Read more : The Joy Of Stats: Why you might go up a hill, but come down a crime victim

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The Joy Of Stats: 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes Featuring: video,audio, The Open University

By Professor Hans Rosling (Guest)

25 November 2010

Using top-quality data visualisation, Hans Rosling takes us through 200 years of global development.  Read more : The Joy Of Stats: 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes

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Watch The Joy Of Stats Featuring: video,audio, Stefan Nilsson / Gapminder

By Professor Hans Rosling (Guest)

25 November 2010

Hans Rosling brings statistics to life in our series of short films.  Read more : Watch The Joy Of Stats

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Darwin and statistics Featuring: video, Creative Commons Image Ex_Libris_gul via Flickr

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

19 March 2009

Little did Darwin realise, as he puzzled over the numerical data he collected, that he was laying the foundations of statistics. Kevin McConway tells the...  Read more : Darwin and statistics

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