Making Numbers Count in the Real World

Title: Making Numbers Count in the Real World
Speaker(s): Speaker: Mona Chalabi # FiveThirtyEight
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Date and Time: 12th Feb 2014 14:00 - 12th Feb 2014 15:00
Location: 6th Floor Common Room - Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square
URL: http://www.q-step.ed.ac.uk/community/events/other_events/2014/making_numbers_count_in_the_real_world

For better or for worse, social sciences (and the jobs their graduates tend to take) are being pushed towards quantitative analysis with unprecedented speed. That shift has created challenges in sharing research in transparent and engaging ways - but it also creates huge opportunities too. The talk will focus on what those opportunities are and how students can make the most of them without feeling like they are a distracting side issue.

Mona Chalabi writes about data that affects who we are and what we do at FiveThirtyEight. She previously worked as a data journalist at the Guardian and has held roles analysing large data sets at the Bank of England, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Transparency International and the International Organisation for Migration.

At Edinburgh uni today talking about #qstep and why undergraduate students need more statistics. Really great discussion with staff on (1/2)
— Mona Chalabi (@MonaChalabi) February 12, 2014

Whether or not essays are an outdated form of assessment - also good to meet academics aware of need to share research in better ways (2/2)
— Mona Chalabi (@MonaChalabi) February 12, 2014