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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As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
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.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
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 HealthMap | Global disease alert map
HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers.
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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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3 BBC NEWS | Programmes | More Or Less
BBC Radio 4 programme on numbers and statistics. Produced in partnership with the Open University
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3 reMap
A visual browser for http://www.visualcomplexity.com using treemaps, tags and 'semantic distance' as navigation aids.
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307.pdf (application/pdf Object)
(filed) govt rresponse to select committee report on scientific advice, risk and evidence-based policy making
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A model of a pandemic
Financial Times animation gives a general visual idea of the way an infectious disease can spread around the world, reflecting transmission between people locally and extended by extensive international travel.
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A visualization of media hype
Plotting media stories from Google News
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Ageing in the UK
Good animation showing changing survival statistics in the UK, including projections
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Ahead.com Survival1812
First successful upload of Survival1812 to an online presentation service in which it runs successfully!
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American Council on Science and Health - Riskometer and RiskRings
A US Riskometer
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Andrew Gelman's blog on Statistical modeling, causal inference, and social science:
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Announcing the Article Search API - Open Blog - NYTimes.com
An API into the NYT database - for articles at least
