ANSWERS TO “2023 QUIZ”
“2023: The Year In Numbers” , the annual data storyteller’s New Year quiz So, if you’ve got here, you’re after the answers to the 2023 quiz, The Year In Numbers. But if you’re still working on those answers using your memory and brainpower, click here to go back to the question page now! . . […]
The megaphone solution to grab COVID headlines?
Press conferences held at Downing Street during the pandemic will provide future generations of researchers with a rich vein of evidence on which to base journal articles, dissertations, and theses.
A nightmare on Downing Street
A cautionary tale of how to fail at data storytelling – with a few jokes thrown in During the hastily cobbled-together press conference to announce and justify lockdown 2.0 on Halloween, I could tell something strange was happening. At the time, I was watching Liverpool nervously climb back to the top of the Premiership in […]
On black holes, blackjack, and data storytelling
When you type “Data science is the new …” into Google, although the search engine doesn’t return “rock ‘n’ roll”, its top two suggestions are “oil” and “investment banking”, two of the most desirable, profit-making enterprises in the history of advanced capitalism. In 2012, a landmark article in the Harvard Business Review dubbed data science “the sexiest job of the 21st century”.
