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March 2024 volume 21 issue 1

NOTEBOOK
News

US Department of Homeland Security, ChatGPT, Household Cost Indices, Netflix data and more

Puzzle

The Battle of Mount Badon
Plus the solution to “Don’t play cards with your elder sister!”

Editorial

The story of a magical metric

PERSPECTIVES
Student success

Two academics at a minority-serving institution study the data on what makes some students lose interest

Book review

The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think by Alberto Cairo

Letters

Our readers share their thoughts

Crossword

Take A Look Around, by Sam Buttrey
Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword

Questions answered

Afsaneh Yazdani is a statistician at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

STATSCOMM
Alberto Cairo

The veteran information designer talks about his work and new book taking us inside the minds of his peers

FEATURES
The R number  

The first in a six-part series by Gavin Freeguard on the evolution and usefulness of the pandemic’s famous epidemiological tool

Slapdash stats  

Unearthing statistics-related blunders in academic papers and what they mean  for science publishing

American football

When should a coach throw the red challenge flag?

Data and getting dressed – part 2            

Jordi Prats’ examination of the stats behind clothing sizes concludes. This issue: ready-to-wear and uniforms

Victorian data mining   

The story of an eighteenth-century customer loyalty programme and the unique data it produced

Data privacy: is there a training gap?

How can data handlers prevent published statistics from revealing too much?

Health disparity

Statisticians must be involved in research, argues J. Sunil Rao

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