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.
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Significance Highlights | Broadway Dreams: Data Behind the Drama
Broadway musicals meet data analysis in this month’s Significance Highlights.
Is It Luck or Skill? May Issue Focuses on Prediction Tournaments
This issue’s cover feature is a must-read for anyone who enjoys the educational guessing games known as prediction tournaments.
Enter the Significance, RSS Writing Competition
Would you like to win a trophy, publication in Significance, and a presentation slot at the 2025 Royal Statistical Society Conference in Edinburgh?
Enter Data-Driven Stories in Significance Contest
Are you an early-career statistician or data scientist with a talent for telling data-driven stories in an entertaining and thought-provoking way? If so, enter the competition for the 2024 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing.
How to Be Published in Significance
Significance editor Anna Britten shares tips for being published in the magazine.
Significance Writing Competition Open for Entries
Learn about the 2023 Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing, jointly organized by Significance and the Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society.
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.
Significance Highlights: June Issue Looks at Using Social Media to Measure Subjective Well-Being
The issue also looks at Wordle, the gender breakdown of most Significance writers, college admissions during COVID-19, women and astronomers, and data-driven advertising.
Statistics Education and Reconsidering the Status Quo
In this month’s JEDI Corner, Suzanne Thornton provides a starting point for statistical practitioners and educators to be better able to distinguish among concepts such as gender identity, gender expression, and sex.