Misleading statistics about eating red meat

Statistics gone wrong? In response to recent research from Harvard School of Public Health about the health risks of eating red meat, Channel 4 News' Cathy Newman interviewed a St. George's Hospital dietician - who says that the statistics are misleading. Watch the interview here.

What data can reveal about someones life

Stephen Wolfram (the founder of Wolfram Alpha) has published some interesting data that gives a revealing portrait of his own life.

Amongst other things he has recorded the time of every one of the 300,000 e-mails that he has sent in the last 20 years:

Not only can you get a clear view of his work day but also the increase in the use of e-mail in that time. This is revealed in more detail here with clear peaks as the big projects he has worked on have come to fruition:

Not only has he looked at e-mail but he has also recorded other information about himself such as the number of paces he takes each day, and even the number of key strokes on his keyboard. Putting this together:

Source - http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/

Graduate employment

New data shows that:

More graduates are employed in lower skill jobs.

1 in 5 graduates are unemployed.

Medicine and dentistry graduates remain the best paid, closely followed by maths and engineering graduates.

Source - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/mar/06/graduate-employment-low-skill-jobs

Study statistics

According to Hal Varian from google:

"the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?"

A new report estimates that the US alone will need an extra 1.5 million managers capable of making decisions based on data.

Read more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/mar/02/data-scientist

Oxford University Press Maths Photography Competition 2012

Win an ipad 2!
For details see http://www.oup.com/oxed/secondary/mathsphotocomp/
The final closing date for all entries is 16th March 2012. Hand in entries to Miss Mauthoor.

European Super Highway of Debt

Wondering just how big the Euro debt crisis is? These frightening infographics show you using lorries packed with €100 notes...

Source: http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_piigs/debt_piigs.htm

February competition - correlation or causation?

Need to 'prove' something you already believe?
It's easy with statistics! All you need are two graphs and a leading question.

Source - http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/correlation-or-causation-12012011-gfx.html

The competition

Make your own misleading graph that shows correlation and implies causation (even if there is no basis for doing so). 
Open to all years, all entries to be given to Mr Alderson by midday, Wednesday 29th February.