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Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat
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A short history of data
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Food prices, net migration and beef about beef
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Are young people more single than ever before?
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NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
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Detecting Bad Science with Data
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Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?
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Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
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How much is the Coronation crown worth?
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The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News
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How accurate is baby's due date?
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How to better understand and explain numbers
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A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
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Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
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Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
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Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
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Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
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UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a...
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Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
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Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
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Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
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Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
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Spreadsheet disasters
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The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
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Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
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Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and can...
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Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
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Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
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Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
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Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
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How we shook the world of very large numbers
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A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster nu...
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Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
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Irish pubs - a global numbers game
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Dec 31, 202210:34pending
Numbers of the Year 2022
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Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
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Why are data so important in determining how we live?
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The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
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When do food shortages become a famine?
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Nov 26, 20228:57pending
A $220 billion World Cup?
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Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
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Nov 14, 202214:32pending
Improving the numbers in the news
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Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
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Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
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Oct 29, 20228:58pending
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
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Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
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