November 20th, 2007

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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.

Submitted by arciris on Fri, 23/11/2007 - 2:55pm
Understanding Uncertainty
Meeting November 20th, 2007

Agenda item number one was a Talks update, of which there was one on Thursday, Nov.22, and one coming up with 470 students Nov.30th.
A: DS to send Arciris times to book train tickets.

We decided to have a team dinner outing December 5th after work. David will be in the Stats Lab on Monday and Thursday of that week, Hauke will come in Wednesday and Thursday.
A: DS to book room for Hauke at Churchill

We discussed spending more resources to develop animations.
A: DS and Mike to have a meeting about progress of animations and website ideas.

The upcoming Sun article on New Year’s resolutions means that though we may not have the website up and running for the public by then, we could have a mini-launch with some supporting info to the article, info of the Programme, and some animations.
A: Find best sources of evidence for the health kick around New Year – to be split up amongst team, DS to meet separately with each member dividing tasks.

Next item on the agenda was the subject of access to the website, which can be done by a couple of weeks from now. We discussed that it would be open to various people in the Stats Lab and some selected others, to get feedback on it.

A: Mike to set up access for DS under the User Settings of the website, so that DS can register new users.
A: Mike to look at changing logo.

We also discussed where book reviews could be placed in the website. Owen suggested that under Internal Documents add in as a page -Books we can add the name of the book.

Meeting adjourned.