SignificancePub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae012
Brian Tarran
{"title":"Great graphics and the great minds behind them","authors":"Brian Tarran","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Information designer Alberto Cairo talks to Brian Tarran about his new book and why bravery, reason and anarchy are intrinsic to all the best data visualisation","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139819148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae008
James A Hanley, Elizabeth Turner
{"title":"Down the Victorian data mine","authors":"James A Hanley, Elizabeth Turner","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We tend to think of data mining as having originated in the late twentieth century, prompted in large part by e-commerce. But, here, James Hanley and Elizabeth Turner tell the story of an eighteenth-century customer loyalty programme later “quarried” for a 1884 article whose statistical ingenuity and overreach won it international media reaction","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"941 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139831489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae009
Ben Derrick, Elizabeth Green, Felix Ritchie, Jim Q. Smith, Paul White
{"title":"The inadvertently revealing statistic: A systemic gap in statistical training?","authors":"Ben Derrick, Elizabeth Green, Felix Ritchie, Jim Q. Smith, Paul White","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While concerns around data privacy are well-known, there's a lack of awareness and training when it comes to the confidentiality risk of published statistics, argue Ben Derrick, Elizabeth Green, Felix Ritchie, Jim Smith, Paul White","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"204 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139832496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae009
Ben Derrick, Elizabeth Green, Felix Ritchie, Jim Q. Smith, Paul White
{"title":"The inadvertently revealing statistic: A systemic gap in statistical training?","authors":"Ben Derrick, Elizabeth Green, Felix Ritchie, Jim Q. Smith, Paul White","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While concerns around data privacy are well-known, there's a lack of awareness and training when it comes to the confidentiality risk of published statistics, argue Ben Derrick, Elizabeth Green, Felix Ritchie, Jim Smith, Paul White","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"53 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139892760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae005
Jordi Prats
{"title":"Fit for duty","authors":"Jordi Prats","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the second of a two-part series, Jordi Prats looks at the mass production of clothing, including uniforms, through a statistical lens","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"87 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139821417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae005
Jordi Prats
{"title":"Fit for duty","authors":"Jordi Prats","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the second of a two-part series, Jordi Prats looks at the mass production of clothing, including uniforms, through a statistical lens","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"12 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139881276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae006
Michael Orkin
{"title":"To challenge or not to challenge?","authors":"Michael Orkin","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In any sport, challenging a referee's decision is risky. The challenge process in American football is particularly chaotic, and coaches have just precious seconds in which to decide whether to throw the red challenge flag and gamble their team's fortunes. Can statistics help them? Michael Orkin investigates","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"31 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139888796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae007
A. Barnett, Nicole White
{"title":"Something is off-base with this title: P esteems, statical significance and more slapdash stats","authors":"A. Barnett, Nicole White","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Shoddy research, lack of checks and a “publish or perish” culture are damaging science – and nightmarish statistical blunders are part of the problem, as Adrian Barnett and Nicole White explain","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"25 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139885718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}