In 2021, the waves of the pandemic started to quickly unravel supply chains across the world. Manufacturing plants slowed or even closed, ports experienced unprecedented back-ups, and transportation ...

Statistical inference can be difficult and counterintuitive. My impression is that too often people treat statistics as if it’s a kind of magic--perhaps a dark magic. For all our efforts as educators, ...

UNHCR has set itself an ambitious goal of eradicating statelessness by 2024. But how many people are even stateless in the world? Who are they? Where are they? Currently, UNHCR reports on 3.9 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

As New Jersey Attorney General, Anne Milgram transformed the most dangerous city in her state. She changed a criminal justice system based on gut and instinct to one supported by data and statistics.

PARIS July 4, 2019 – The World Bank and UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) today announced a new partnership to help countries strengthen their learning assessment systems, better monitor what ...

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Willie Mays, possibly the greatest player in baseball history, died on Tuesday afternoon. He was 93 years old. For various reasons, Mays' career cannot be justly summarized by reciting his statistics ...

If the rule goes into effect, it could be harder for economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics — who are anxious about losing their jobs — to deliver bad news. The Trump administration is proposing ...