Tues 30th April: I will be talking about ‘Living with Chance, Luck and Coincidence’, at Perse School, Cambridge CB2 8QF. In aid of the excellent Sick Children’s Trust (I benefited from their charity).
Wine 19.00hr. Talk 19.30hr. £15.00 (including wine). [email protected]

publicstatistic.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/lea… great post on the role of statisticians / data-scientists in scrutinising automated systems. How do they work? How good are they? How are they governed? (I think the Australian Robodebt fiasco should be better known)

Did a podcast with the wonderful Dr Roger Kneebone - including discussing performance and introversion rogerkneebone.libsyn.com/david-spiegelh…

So pleased to see EasyRead versions of our latest decision aids for the NHS now out.
Leila Finikarides and Luna 9 | Design Studio in particular worked v closely with EasyRead users to ensure that they now have support to take part in decisions about their own health.
england.nhs.uk/personalisedca…

Wonderful to see ex-colleague Ilan Goodman getting this well-deserved award!

good to see a proper model-based assessment of excess deaths blog.ons.gov.uk/2024/02/15/exc…

Last chance to enter a trustworthy communicator into this most excellent competition ! D

Here's your chance to celebrate the best in communication! And each Harding Prize is worth £3,141.59 - geddit? We've had great past winners - now whose turn will it be? hardingprize.online

Oh dear, got a plug in the Guardian list of books to look out for in 2024 (September). I suppose this means I have to get on and finish it. theguardian.com/books/2023/dec…

some nice little puzzles for round the christmas table...

We have a new podcast! Join our director Tracey Brown as she reflects on the challenges of campaigning to put sound science at the heart of public life with guests David Spiegelhalter, Ben Goldacre, Vivian Tseng and Ed Humpherson of Office for Statistics Regulation: shows.acast.com/657092f9e8850f…

Job alert: Professor of Geometry

Gresham College, London

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This has got some excellent discussion of communicating uncertainty about GDP estimates -see paras 11-18

Here's your chance to celebrate the best in communication! And each Harding Prize is worth £3,141.59 - geddit? We've had great past winners - now whose turn will it be? hardingprize.online

One of five new NHS decision aids released today - the result of much work by a lot of people (including Luna 9 | Design Studio and led by Leila Finikarides). We very much hope they help people with difficult health decisions to make.

Tune in at 7.15pm on @bbcradio4 for coincidence and luck! We were lucky (or were we?) to be joined by David Spiegelhalter Marcus du Sautoy DUKER

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

A great job for a good communicator

In which I rant about trustworthiness....

Great programme, in which I get to talk about how much sex young people had in 1973. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

If you have an interest in the future of statistics and data science education in schools, please read this discussion paper and send comments!