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  Ok, money can't buy you love, but can it buy you the Premier League title? We'll look at that below, but first this recent Guardian...

  This is a great story with a puzzle and an apparent contradiction at the heart of it, that you might like to think about yourself. A couple...

  No doubt you're already well-aware of, and eagerly anticipating, this year's Eurovision song contest final to be held in Tel Aviv between the...

  Not content with having recently won the London marathon for the fourth time in a record time of 2:02:37, the phenomenal Kenyan athlete Eliud...

  Had a bad weekend? Maybe your team faded against relegated-months-ago Huddersfield Town, consigning your flickering hopes of a Champions...

In a recent post I included a link to an article that showed how Statistics can be used to disseminate bullshit. That article was written by Tim...

  One of the themes I've tried to develop in this blog is the connectedness of Statistics. Many things which seem unrelated, turn out to be...

Remember that thing about statistical diagrams of data telling their own story? Well, here's a graphic showing the location of every touch of the...

  I recently posted a problem that had been shown to me by someone at Smartodds. Basically, you have a bunch of coins. You toss them and remove...

Ok, I'm going call it... This is, by some distance: 'The Best Application of Statistics in Cinematic History': https://youtu.be/8Xjr2hnOHiM It has...

  VAR, eh? So, does video-assisted refereeing (VAR) improve the quality of decision-making in football matches? Of course, that's not the only...

  You can't help but be amazed at the recent release of the first ever genuine image of a black hole. The picture itself, and the knowledge of...