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Seat belts, buses and inflation - Government statistics with Michael Baxter
In this alumni series from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Michael Baxter about his time at UCL and subsequent years working in government, including a wide variety of projects, from unearthing a national Census undercount to informing on the effects of compulsory seatbelt wearing.
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1/5/2024
Teaching Bayesian statistics and accessibility in education
In this interview from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Dr Mine Dogucu who is a Lecturer in the department of Statistical Science at UCL. Dr Dogucu shares with us her experiences of teaching both frequentist and Bayesian statistics to undergraduates. She also explains what accessibility means in education and in the context of statistics, including being part of changing knitr and R Markdown to improve accessibility with image alternative text. Bayes Rules! book: https://www.bayesrulesbook.com/ New in knitr: Improved Accessibility with Image Alt Text: https://www.rstudio.com/blog/knitr-fig-alt/ Teach Access: https://teachaccess.org/ BrailleR: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BrailleR/ Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization, Amy Cesal: https://medium.com/nightingale/writing-alt-text-for-data-visualization-2a218ef43f81 gradetools R package: https://federicazoe.github.io/gradetools/ Papers: Framework for Accessible and Inclusive Te
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10/5/2022
The history of statistics and eugenics at UCL with Professor Tom Fearn
In this contributed series from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Professor Tom Fearn about how UCL is acknowledging and addressing its historical links with the eugenics movement, and in particular the roles of the prominent statisticians and eugenicists Francis Galton and Karl Pearson.
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10/15/2021