Understanding Uncertainty

A movie comparing the chances of diabetes and cardiovascular disease for men in the upper and lower body mass index quintiles.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PAUL THE PSYCHIC OCTOPUS tells the official and exclusive story of the world's most beloved and scorned cephalopod, whose rem...

Daily price changes for eleven currencies compared to the US Dollar across a two year period presented using different information visualizations. ...

Horizon Graph data visualizations are a fantastic way to overview a large number of time series in a limited rectangular space. Since this informat...

Taking another look at the UK National Lottery, David Spiegelhalter discusses the amazingly long gaps during which some numbers simply never appear...

David Spiegelhalter talks about uncertainty in major league football. How much is a team's league position due to luck and how much is due to skill...

Given enough opportunities for something unlikely to happen, it's very likely that it will. David Spiegelhalter demonstrates this using a simple nu...

For 9 years, ball 38 was the most frequently drawn number, but what does this mean? David Spiegelhalter takes a look at the data.There's further re...

David Spiegelhalter talks about the uncertainties associated with security screening. More on this at http://understandinguncerta...