Mark Easton's blog on bbc.co.uk - he's the BBC home editor but uses a lot of statistics in his column
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https://understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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A selection of our social bookmarks sorted by category which we believe to be of general interest. {Originally stored on https://del.icio.us/undunc}
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1 BBC - Mark Easton
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1 Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, concepts, subjects - visualized!
A blog looking at information visualization by David MCandless (Guardian/Wired freelancer). I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool!
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1 Junk Charts
A Tufte fan analysing charts that make the news. Usefully linked.
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1 TierneyLab Blog from the New York Times has excellent coverage of all things numerical and scientific
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2 Michael Blastland
Michael Blastland writes about statisics on BBC Online - check his archive for some good stories
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2 The Numbers Guy in the Wall Street Journal: "Carl Bialik examines the way numbers are used, and abused" . Wonderful
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3 Bad Science
Ben Goldacre's blog. Add it to your bookmarks!
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Andrew Gelman's blog on Statistical modeling, causal inference, and social science:
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blog.berndweiss.net
A German blog on quantitative sociology
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Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Blog
Mostly geographical/geological/climate related stories. Published by Durham University Dept of Geography.
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James' Empty Blog: Probability, uncertainty, models and climate
discussion of Bayesian arguments at conference
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Main Page - ChanceWiki
2 Articles updated monthly on statistics in the news
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NHS Choices - great coverage of recent health stories in the news
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SEARCH RESULTS - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal numbers guy
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STATS blog: covering statistics in the news
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