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Re: The Joy of Stats

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"Goncalves, Miguel" <[log in to unmask]>

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I thought it was a dismal programme. Lots and lots of IT, fancy charts,
Hans annoying self-publicising personality, but actually very little of
statistics. The inquisitive mind of a statistician was missing,
hypothesis testing was reduced to something that stops progress, and the
last bit about mapping feelings was verging on ludicrous. In the end, it
just made me depressed. The only interesting bit was Peter Norvig's
stuff on the machine translation, but it is better to see him talking in
his many presentations.

Miguel 

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Subject: Re: The Joy of Stats

Interesting programme (though I do wish documentary makers would not put
irritating background music behind the speech). The first part seemed
to be an exposition of simple statistics as we know and love them. Do
any colleagues have access to the software that produces the gee-wizz
animated graphs that were used? I'm assuming you all have the same
enthusiasm for statistics!
But did I get this wrong - it seems to me that towards the end of the
programme we were moving very close to an old fashioned empiricism of a
kind seldom seen today. This used to say that if you have enough data
and big enough computers you will be able explain the human condition
(or perhaps even 'the laws of society' to quote an early OED definition
of sociology). 
But maybe I was reading too much into this. All very entertaining.
Recommended this to some students and will be interested in their
feedback - if they watched.

Robert

Professor Robert Moore
School of Sociology and Social Policy
Eleanor Rathbone Building
The University of Liverpool
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Sent: 06 December 2010 15:07
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Subject: FW: The Joy of Stats

From the economic geography list:

If you haven't already seen it in the listings, you may be interested in
"The Joy Of Stats" by Professor Hans Rosling to be broadcast tomorrow (7
December) on BBC4 at 9pm. It looks to be a very exciting and inspiring
programme.

You can see the trailer here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cgk8p

And a short (four-minute) example of the sort of thing Professor Rosling
does here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cgkfk

Best wishes

David


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