Stuart Coles

Ok, this isn't strictly Statistics, but I came across it while researching for another post and it seemed fun, so I thought I'd share it. JiGaZo is...

  The hedgehog and the fox is an essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Though published in 1993, the title is a reference to a fragment of a poem...

Let's play a game. I've got a coin here, and I'm going to toss it repeatedly and record the sequence of outcomes: heads (H) and tails (T). Here we...

  They're not especially statistical, and not especially difficult, but I thought you might like to try some tennis-based puzzle questions....

  Here's a question: how do you get dogs to walk on water? Turns out there's a really simple answer - just heat the atmosphere up by burning...

  If you follow basketball you're likely to know that the NBA draft was held this weekend, resulting in wonderkid Zion Williamson being...

  In an earlier post I included the following table: As I explained, one of the columns contains the genuine land areas of each country, while...

  Apologies for the terrible pun in the title. When I used to teach Statistics I tried to emphasise to students that Statistics is as much an...

    Take a look at the following table:   It shows the total land area, in square kilometres, for various countries. Actually, it's...

  In a previous post I discussed a problem that Freddy had written to me about. The problem was a simplified version of an issue sent to him by...

  Kirk Goldsberry is the author of a new book on data analytics for NBA. I haven't read the book, but some of the graphical illustrations he's...

  Ever thought your cat might be trolling you? Turns out you're right. As explained in this New Scientist article, recent Japanese research...