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Energy data availability: The good, the bad and the ugly
Prof. Chris Dent on the issues surrounding availability of energy data.
World Statistics Day 2020
This year's theme is "Connecting the world with data we can trust"
Prof. Ruth King presented keynote at RSS annual conference
The annual international conference of the Royal Statistical Society takes place annually for anyone interested in statistics and data science.
Prof. Chris Dent on data, algorithms and 2020 national assessment
Prof. Chris Dent writes on the issues around award of marks for national high school exams in the UK under Covid.
Students from across the University take part in DataFest @ EDI 2020
Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel organised and ran a Datafest event for students from the School of Mathematics and the rest of the University. This took place over two weeks between May the 30th and June the 13th 2020. Student's ...
Academics from the School of Maths are taking part in a scientific endeavour, DECOVID.
Ruth King (co-deputy team lead), Nicolò Margaritella, Michael Allerhand and Gail Robertson from the School of Mathematics are taking part in a COVID related scientific endeavour. This UoE team is composed of 13 members and includes ...
Communicating statistics, risk and uncertainty in the age of Covid - Prof. David Spiegelhalter
The Centre for Statistics is excited to announce our next lecture: ‘Communicating statistics, risk and uncertainty in the age of Covid', with the inimitable Prof. David Spiegelhalter.
Victor Elvira awarded an ARL Grant
Victor Elvira has been awarded an ARL grant, by the Network Science and Intelligent Systems Division, to research "Combining particle filters for Bayesian inference in multiple complex models". In this project, we will ...
Dr Skarleth Carrales has been allocated a grant to develop a tool to support communities in Edinburgh hampered by COVID-19
Dr Skarleth Carrales has been allocated a grant, £12,904, to develop an innovative tool to support communities in Edinburgh hampered by COVID-19. This work is a collaborative effort between the School of Mathematics, the ...
Unlocking the workforce
Professor Miguel Anjos, Dr Lars Schewe, Albert Solà Vilalta and Dr Amy Wilson have contributed to a white paper on guiding principles in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, as part of a Virtual Study Group (VSG). The paper, titled ...
