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National Lottery
The UK National Lottery began on 19th November 1994 and there had been 1240 draws up to 20th October 2007. The jackpot prize is won by choosing in advance the 6 numbers that will be drawn from a set of...
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Football Leagues
The Premier League is the main English football league, with 20 teams each playing a home and away against each other team making, 38 matches for each team in a season, and 380 matches altogether....
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Who is this?Install the Flash Player to view. This short video clip featuring the head in our logo is a cryptic reference to a famously improbable death. Can you work out who it is, what happened,...
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Pick a Number
In this animation, the computer simulates a number of people $N$ choosing a number at random between 1 and $(\frac{N}{2})^2$. So, for example, it will simulate 400 people choosing a number between 1...
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How long are you going to live?
None of us are going to last for ever. Our prospects depend on our sex, our age, our lifestyle, our genes, and many other personal factors both known and unknown. Even with all this information we're...
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Moscow 1812
This is still a work in progress, but we thought you might be interested in these different ways the data in Charles Minard's map can be visualised. The Minard map is a beautifully clear summary of the...
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Nightingale's 'Coxcombs'
Through her work as a nurse in the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale was a pioneer in establishing the importance of sanitation in hospitals. She meticulously gathered data on relating death tolls in...
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2845 ways to spin the Risk
In the animation below we show how risks can be ‘spun’ to look bigger or smaller, how medical treatments can be made to seem useless or to be wonder cures, and how lifestyle changes might look...
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Screening for disease and dishonesty
A secret government agency has developed a scanner which determines whether a person is a terrorist. The scanner is fairly reliable; 95% of all scanned terrorists are identified as terrorists, and 95%...
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Screening for HIV
Our first screening example featured a fictitious terrorist-detecting device that was not very accurate. However, as this real example shows, even when the tests are incredibly accurate we still get...
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