My guest today is David J. Hand, an emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London, a former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and a fellow of the British Academy. His many previous books include The Improbability Principle, Measurement: A Very Short Introduction, Statistics: A Very Short Introduction, and Principles of Data Mining.

The topic is his book Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• David Hand
• Improbability principle
• Statistics
• Underestimating variability
• Improbability principles
• Fabricated data
• Social Sciences

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