Media expressing the public voice of statistics

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• Blog

  Statisticians React to the News

  The ISI provides weekly blog posts of reactions to current news items from a set of statisticians world-wide.

• Blog

  Blog about Stats

  This is a multi-author official statistics blog, intended to be a meeting point where colleagues from Statistical Organizations share their experiences, successes and failures, focus attention on (new) developments and stay informed in the vast domain of disseminating (statistical) information.

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  Data for Sustainable Development

  This UNESCO Institute for Statistics Blog showcases innovative solutions as researchers and analysts worldwide explore ways to gather more and better data.

• Podcast

  Data Skeptic Podcast

  Centered on data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

• Blog

  Forensic Science, Statistics & the Law

  D. H. Kaye presents aspects of statistics that are broadly relevant to forensic science and the law.

• Blog

  Hyndsight

  Rob Hyndman, professor of Statistics in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University presents thoughts on research, forecasting, statistics, and other distractions.

• Podcast

  More or Less: Behind the Stats

  BBC 4 tries to make sense of the statistics which surround us.

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  Not-So-Standard Deviations

  A fortnightly data science podcast by Roger Peng and Hilary Parker.

• Podcast

  O'Reilly Data Show Podcast

  Explores the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI, edited by Ben Lorica.

• YouTube Channel

  Pod of Asklepius

  A series of videos on the philosophy of data science.

• Blog

  Radical Statistics Group

  This blog aims at using statistics to support progressive social change. It covers bad uses of statistics, statistics for social change, reductions of statistical budgets, statistics in society and other similar issues.

• YouTube Channel

  Royal Statistical Society

  Used as a platform to promote the activities of the Society. It provides information about the Society, outlines the Section Groups of the Society (an amazing array of subject areas are covered), recordings of Society webinars, podcasts and videos from Society conferences, hands-on statistics activities developed for Society members to use in careers fairs, at festivals and in schools, and the Young Statisticians section provides videos that focus on undertaking statistics in Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral programs.

• Blog

  Simply Statistics

  Jeff Leek, Roger Peng, and Rafa Irizarry, professors of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities. They like the idea of using simple statistics to solve real, important problems.

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  Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

  Andrew Gelman, professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University. Gelman has about a dozen co-posters. Posts and comments are deliberations on dealing with uncertainties in scientific inquiry.

• Podcast

  Stats + Stories

  In recognition that there are statistics behind the stories we hear and a story behind the statistics, presented by the Stats Guy (John Bailer) and the Stories Guy (Richard Campbell).

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  Stats Chat

  David Scott and Thomas Lumley are professors of Statistics at the University of Auckland. They discuss a broad range of issues from rugby predictions to uncertainty visualization.

• Podcast

  Talking Machines

  A window into the world of machine learning, presented by Neil and Katherine.

• Podcast

  The R-Podcast

  Giving practical advice on how to use R for powerful and innovative data analyses, with host Eric Nantz.

• YouTube Channel

  This is Statistics

  By the American Statistical Association (ASA), this provides a vast array of videos that showcases careers in statistics, the impact of statistics in addressing major challenges and ensuring everyday happenings occur, what statistics is important to everyone in society, and why studying statistics provides students with so many lifetime benefits. A great resource for statisticians and non-statisticians to use and equally to provide input towards with their own videos. The main talent showcased provides a US perspective on statistics and careers in statistics.

• Blog

  Xi’an’s Og

  Xi’an is a French university professor. The statistics posts mainly focus on computational and Bayesian topics, on papers or preprints he finds of interest (or worth criticizing).