The September issue of “Significance” includes pieces on dubious statistical reasoning used against federal workers, radiation in Fukushima, album closing tracks, and more.
Significance Highlights
Google Searches, Beer Miles, and What the Data Reveals
This issue covers Google’s death-search data; a statistical look at the “beer mile”; and pieces on prison remand, mass shootings, kurtosis, and misleading data practices.
Significance Highlights | Broadway Dreams: Data Behind the Drama
Broadway musicals meet data analysis in this month’s Significance Highlights.
Significance Highlights: March Issue Takes on Data During War, Conflict
The March issue of Significance explores the challenges of gathering reliable data in war zones, highlighting innovative statistical approaches to measuring conflict effects, humanitarian needs, and diverse topics from hypothesis testing to mental health classification.
January Issue of “Significance” Focuses on Statistics and Aging
By 2050, more than a fifth of the global population will be aged 60 or older. The January issue of Significance focuses on statistics and aging.
December Issue Sheds Light on FIFA World Cup
As the FIFA World Cup 2022 gets into full swing in Qatar, the December issue of Significance sheds statistical light on events on and off the field.
August Issue Features Data from Middle Ages, Data Viz Heroes
Digging for data from the medieval ages occupies James Walker, John Lee, and Stephen Broadberry in the August issue of Significance. They use ancient statistical documents, including arguably the most famous of them all—Domesday Book, published in 1086—to painstakingly reconstruct the medieval economy.
Significance Highlights: David Cox Passing, COVID-19 Data Lead April Issue
In a special 12-page collection of articles in this issue, friends and colleagues remember Sir David in their own way, while also reflecting on his immense contributions to statistics. Additionally, a selection of pieces is devoted to COVID data, lockdowns, modeling, and student learning.
Significance Covers COVID-19, Social Media, Rain-Predicting Tortoises
Can a pet tortoise predict when it’s about to rain? That’s the somewhat unusual question posed by Conner Jackson, winner of Significance magazine’s Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing. Jackson’s article, “Pietro the Weather Tortoise and the Pursuit of Soggy Bun Prevention,” leads the line-up of feature articles in the October 2021 issue.
Significance Highlights: June Issue Looks at Biometrics and Space Debris
Discover how statistical ideas inform the design and implementation of biometric security systems and how estimates of dangerous space debris are produced—all in the June 2021 issue of Significance.