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Contributing Editor David Hand has been re-reading John Tukey’s “The Future of Data Analysis”:
Most readers will be familiar with the name John Tukey. He is renowned for developing the Fast Fourier Transform and the box plot, and for coining the term “bit” as used in computer science as well…
Contributing Editor David J. Hand, Imperial College, London, continues his Hand Writing column:
The phrase Artificial Intelligence, AI for short, is becoming ubiquitous. AI is said to hold the promise of revolutionising the human condition in innumerable ways, from taking over boring and dangerous tasks, through improving medical treatments and…
Contributing Editor David J. Hand, Imperial College London, writes:
“Algorithm” seems to be the word of the moment. To those untrained in quantitative disciplines it can seem to be imbued with magical properties. Algorithms are what underlie speech recognition systems, self-driving cars, and optimal sat-nav route-finding systems. They are what…
David J. Hand, Imperial College London, is one of our Contributing Editors. He writes about the role statistics can play in detecting and combating fraud:
I do not need to remind the readers of the IMS Bulletin that the discipline of statistics is ubiquitous, being applied in all walks of…
Contributing Editor David Hand, Imperial College London, explains how a US state lottery was gamed:
We statisticians all know that buying lottery tickets is a fool’s game. Unless, that is, you regard the warm glow from dreaming about what you would do if you did win as worth the cost…