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Royal Statistical Society
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Royal Statistical Society
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The Royal Statistical Society is a membership body promoting a world with data at the heart of understanding and decision making
- 📣We've just launched a new guide for data visualisation Covering the core principles & elements of #datavis - the structure of charts & tables and how they can be refined to aid readability. Read it here ⬇️ rss.org.uk/news-publicati…
- A-levels: Exam regulator ignored expert help after statisticians wouldn't sign non-disclosure agreements
- We need to reject negative stereotypes around maths The RSS, along with many of the UK’s leading mathematical sciences societies, is led by a woman and three of our four VPs are women We are home to thousands of female members who all like ‘hard maths’
- 📢Today we launch our memo to government on the ten statistical lessons they must learn from Covid-19 rss.org.uk/news-publicati… (a thread)
- Today is the bicentenary of our first female fellow, Florence Nightingale who joined the Society in 1858, following her return from the Crimean War. Here is her nomination form #Nightingale2020
- The winner of our best stats commentary category for the 2023 Excellence in Journalism Awards, sponsored by @ESRC is @chrischirp of @UCL_CORU and @uclmaps for her article ‘Physics: Do girls avoid it because it’s too hard?’ #RSSAwards rss.org.uk/news-publicati…
- Born on this day in 1820 - nurse and statistician, Florence Nightingale, who was also our first female fellow. Here is her Society nomination form #RSSFellow
- The winner of our 2022 Award for Statistical Excellence in Trustworthiness, Quality & Value, sponsored by @StatsRegulation and @CSWnews is the COVID-19 Dashboard Team at @UKHSA Congratulations to all the team! #RSSAwards rss.org.uk/Winner-of-stat…
- Today we release the findings of our survey of MPs, testing their statistical skills (a thread) rss.org.uk/news-publicati…
- We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Sir David Cox. As well as his immense contributions to statistical research, he'll be remembered as a boundlessly generous and supportive friend to generations of statisticians.
- One of the four tests that the government set for proceeding with the roadmap out of lockdown is that “our assessment of the risks is not fundamentally changed by new Variants of Concern” (A thread)
- Fans of R take note - @rstudio chief scientist @hadleywickham is our first confirmed keynote speaker for the 2021 RSS Conference next September! @RSSAnnualConf rss.org.uk/news-publicati…
- Replying to @RoyalStatSocWe asked a sample of MPs the same simple probability question we asked them ten years ago - if you toss a coin twice, what is the probability of getting two heads?
