Hand writing
Contributing Editor David J. Hand, Imperial College London, returns to his Hand Writing column with some thoughts on the unglamorous but fundamentally important topic of data quality.
Countless articles and many books have been written on the topic of data quality. High quality data is clearly central to…
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…