NOTES: (PowerPoint Slides)
LINKS:
VIDEOS:Why you might go up a hill, but come down a crime victim: Plotting San Francisco's crimes onto a topographical map revealed a surprising factor in crime rates: where you are on a hill.
Above average: How many legs does the average Swede have? The surprising answer can tell us a lot about averages...
The Lady With A Data Visualisation: Famous for her lamp, it was the light shed by Florence Nightingale's statistics that really saved lives in great numbers.
Meaningless and meaningful correlations: Just because two things might appear to be related, it doesn't mean they are - but it's the meaningful correlations that are the treasures of...
How statistics make understanding foreign words simpler: Through a massive statistical analysis, Google have taught a machine to translate across dozens of languages pretty effectively.