Numbers & statistics
BBC. Editorial guidelines: statistics.
Bell, Andrew et al. Making sense of data in the media. SAGE, 2020. Library resource
Bergstrom, Carl T. & West, Jevin D. Calling Bullsh-t. The art of scepticism in a data-driven world. Allen Lane, 2020 Library resource
Best, Joel. Damned lies and statistics. University of California Press, 2012 (updated ed.) Library resource; More damned lies and statistics, University of California Press, 2004 Library resource
Blastland, Michael & Dilnot, Andrew. The Tiger that isn’t. Seeing through a world of numbers. Profile, 2008 Library resource
Blauw, Sanne. The number bias. Sceptre, 2020
Chivers, Tom & David Chivers. How to read numbers. A guide to statistics in the news. W&N, 2021
Coddington, Mark & Lewis, Seth. Do journalists hide behind sources when they use numbers in the news? Nieman Lab, 2021 & Lawson, B.T. Hiding Behind Databases, Institutions and Actors: How Journalists Use Statistics in Reporting Humanitarian Crises. Journalism Practice, 2021
Cohen, Sarah. Numbers in the Newsroom: Using Math and Statistics in News, 2nd ed., IRE, 2014
Cohn, Victor & Cope, Lewis. News and numbers. Wiley-Blackwell, 3rd ed., 2012 Library resource
Davies, William. How statistics lost their power. Guardian, 2017
Goldacre, Ben. Big Pharma. How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients. 4th Estate, 2012
Goldacre, Ben. I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that. 4th Estate, 2014
Hand, David J. Statistics. A very short introduction. OUP, 2008. Library resource
Hand, David J. Dark Data. Why what you don’t know matters. Princeton, 2020. Library resource
Harford, Tim. How to make the world add up. Bridge Street Press, 2020
Harkness, Timandra. Big data. Does size matter? Bloomsbury, 2016. Library resource
Huff, Darrell. How to lie with statistics. Norton, 1954
Jerven, Morten. Preface. Poor Numbers. Cornell University Press, 2013, p. ix–xiv. Library resource
Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin, 2011. Library resource
Kaplan, Daniel. Statistical Modelling. 2017
Lanchester, John. Get a rabbit, London Review of Books, 45/18, 2023, p. 3-8
Lievesley, Denise. A guide to statistics for journalists. Reuters Institute, 2020. 1h Video
Marshall, Sarah. How to correctly report numbers in the news. 2012
Matthews, Robert. Storks deliver babies. Teaching statistics, 22/2, 2000
Meyer, Philip. Precision Journalism. A Reporter’s Introduction to Social Science Methods. Rowman & Littlefield, 4th ed., 2002. Library resource
NCTJ. Reporting polls (online course).
Nguyen, An (ed.). News, numbers and public opinion in a data-driven world. Bloomsbury, 2018. Library resource
Paulos, John Allen. A Mathematician Reads the Newspapers. Penguin, 1995
Paulos, John Allen. Innumeracy. Mathematical illiteracy and its consequences. Penguin, 1988
Porter, Theodore. Trust in numbers: the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life. Princeton University Press, 1996. Library resource
Reinhart, Alex. Statistics Done Wrong. The woefully complete guide. No Starch Press, 2015
Reuben, Anthony. Statistical. Ten easy ways to avoid being misled by numbers. Constable, 2019
Rosling, Hans. The joy of stats. 1h Video
Rowntree, Derek. Statistics without tears. An introduction for non-mathematicians. Penguin, 2018
Silver, Nate. The Signal and the Noise. The Art and Science of Prediction. Penguin, 2012
Spiegelhalter, David. The Art of Statistics. Learning from Data. Pelican, 2019
Stray, Jonathan. Drawing conclusions from data. 2013.
Stray, Jonathan. The curious journalist’s guide to data. Tow Center, 2018
Wheelan, Charles. Naked statistics. Stripping the dread from the data. Norton, 2013