October 15, 2020
Speaker: Robert Cuffe, BBC News, Head of Statistics
Title: "Numbers in the newsroom"
Abstract: After twenty minutes putting you in the shoes of a journalist responding to a breaking story based on numbers, Robert will talk about fitting numbers and uncertainty in news.
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