Influence Explorer Rulers Nate Silver: Eight cool things journalists should know about statistics Journalists need to bring science and forecasting into their news coverage, despite the fact that predicting outcomes is viewed as “uncouth” in some newsrooms, statistician Nate Silver told a gathering at the Online News Association conference Friday. Silver has achieved rock-star status in the world of data journalism thanks to correctly calling the 2012 presidential winner in all 50 states, not to mention his smart analysis of baseball and a best-selling book about why predictions fail. A critic of stories that use numbers in inaccurate or inexact ways, Silver offered eight points that journalists should know if they use statistics: 1. Statistics aren’t just numbers. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Silver is moving FiveThirtyEight from the Times to ESPN, with plans to relaunch in early 2014. Tags: Nate Silver, Online News Association
SAIL SAIL UN Statistics New York, 1 June 2016 - The chair of the Statistical Commission, Ms. Wasmalia Bivar of Brazil, addressed the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on 1 June during its Coordination and Management Meeting. Ms. The presentation (English, Spanish) was followed by a short Q&A session. Become Data Literate in 3 Simple Steps Become Data Literate in 3 Simple Steps Just as literacy refers to “the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material” data-literacy is the ability to consume for knowledge, produce coherently and think critically about data. Data literacy includes statistical literacy but also understanding how to work with large data sets, how they were produced, how to connect various data sets and how to interpret them. Poynter’s News University offers classes of Math for journalists, in which reporters get help with concepts such as percentage changes and averages. Interestingly enough, these concepts are being taught simultaneously near Poynter’s offices, in Floridian schools, to fifth grade pupils (age 10-11), as the curriculum attests. That journalists need help in math topics normally covered before high school shows how far newsrooms are from being data literate. 1. The easiest way to show off with spectacular data is to fabricate it. 2. 3.