Monthly Archives: March 2020

At this critical time in the modern history of the human race, mathematical models have been pushed into the foreground. Epidemic forecasting informs policy and even individual decision-making. Sadly, scientists and journalists have completely failed to communicate how these models work. Last week the Financial Times published the headline ‘Coronavirus may have infected half ofContinue reading “All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong”

Hi everyone- Time flies- even with the extra day, February felt pretty short… Anyway, here’s round 2 of the Royal Statistical Society Data Science Section monthly newsletter- any and all feedback most welcome! If you like these, do please send on to your friends- we are looking to build a strong community of data scienceContinue reading “March Newsletter”