Any day of the football week it is possible to see or hear an ex-professional bristling when someone raises the ‘s’ word. Statistics. You can prove anything with them, apparently, or so the cliche ...

Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

Baseball, statistics and Brad Pitt are the unusual ingredients of Hollywood's new release. Moneyball tells the compelling true story of a coach who pioneered a radical use of data to turn around the ...

Statistics can inform the decisions you make in your own home, like which school you send your kids to. They can tell you how well services are being provided, and how easy it might be for you to ...

Standing in a long queue at airport security with your fractious family, you might think it is pretty obvious you do not look like a terrorist. But is your journey through security about to get easier ...