*AQMeN Annual Lecture - Statistics: the Science of the Individual
(resched from Nov 2010)*

Professor David Hand, Professor of Statistics in the Department of
Mathematics at Imperial College London, will deliver this year's Annual
Lecture on Friday 25th February at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Abstract
Statistics is often portrayed as the epitome of a depersonalising
discipline.  It is seen as squeezing out the unique, the special, and
the individual, to make bland, and occasionally superficially absurd
statements about, for example, the 'average man'.  However, there is
another way to look at much of statistics.  This is that its objective
is to combine its aggregate summaries with particular characteristics of
individuals to make highly specific and personal statements about those
individuals.  In this lecture, Professor Hand will develop this notion
of statistics as being about the individual, and describe some of his
experiences in developing and applying statistical tools aimed at making
statements about individuals.  David is currently President of the Royal
Statistical Society and he has a wide range of research interests,which
include multivariate statistics, classification methods, pattern
detection, the interface between statistics and computing and the
foundations of statistics. His application of statistical methods has
covered a number of disciplines, including medicine, psychology and
finance, and he has acted as an expert advisor to both public and
private sector organisations, including governments, banks and
pharmaceutical companies.

For more information & to sign up:
http://aqmen.ac.uk/events/AnnualLectureFeb

*Talk About Revolutions: The changing face of data dissemination in the
21st Century*

This event is organised jointly by the AQMeN Edinburgh local network and
the Royal Statistical Society.

Dr Steve Rogers from the ONS Data Visualisation Centre will present an
engaging talk charting historical and recent developments in Data
Visualisation and other related sciences such as Visual Perception and
Information Technology that can be used to improve the way in which
statistics are communicated.  This will be followed by an informal Q&A
session in which Steve will further demonstrate the tools developed by
the Data Visualisation Centre and discuss specific issues or areas of
interest related to the presentation of statistical information.

Abstract
The shift in data dissemination from traditional paper to web-based
publication is the latest challenge in a history of revolutions that
have shaped the way National Statistical Institutes deliver statistical
information to the world.  While inventions such as time-line charts,
line and bar graphs, and the steam-press, opened the door for presenting
statistical information to a much wider audience in a 'meaningful' way,
the World Wide Web and Web 2.0 marks the beginning of new opportunities
to unlock and present even more information latent in data.  Guided by
other revolutions such as our understanding about how people perceive
information in both static and moving images, here, we present some of
the ways the Office for National Statistics is meeting the challenge of
data dissemination in the 21st Century.

For more information & to sign up: http://aqmen.ac.uk/events/edinburghFeb

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