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Anthony B. Masters

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What happened to internet retail sales in Great Britain?

2d ago

Log on, Shop on

2d ago

Building a graph, step by step

Data visualisation depends on analytical choices.

Dec 21

Building a graph, step by step

Dec 21

Data wrangling and name linkages

Answering a question about MPs leads to a lot of wrangling.

Dec 14

Data wrangling and name linkages

Dec 14

Enforced returns and enforced origins

A bar graph published by Labour does not start at zero.

Dec 7

Enforced returns and enforced origins

Dec 7

Private Members’ Bills and Balls from Urns

A statistical ideal becomes literal.

Nov 30

The Chairman of Ways and Means draws from a urn, to select which MPs can put forward a Private Members’ Bill.

Nov 30

Reflections on the 2024 RSS conference

All the way from Brighton.

Nov 23

Anthony Masters talking at the RSS conference, with Timandra Harkness looking on.

Nov 23

Evolving the measurement of inflation

How is the Office for National Statistics improving price stats?

Apr 30, 2022

Evolving the measurement of inflation

Apr 30, 2022

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The challenges of stats communication

Novel statistics can be hard to communicate.

Apr 27, 2022

The challenges of stats communication

Apr 27, 2022

Bad graph hunting

Much can go wrong when making data visualisations.

Apr 24, 2022

Bad graph hunting

Apr 24, 2022

The case of the Morgan Stanley graph

What went wrong with a graph about intensive care in US states?

Apr 22, 2022

The case of the Morgan Stanley graph

Apr 22, 2022

Anthony B. Masters

Anthony B. Masters

This blog looks at the use of statistics in Britain and beyond. It is written by RSS Statistical Ambassador and Chartered Statistician @anthonybmasters.

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