CineXjenza and Spazju Kreattiv Cinema is hosting Sir David Spiegelhalter who will be delivering a talk on the intriguing topic – Sex, murder, and Covid: How statistics are vital to understand the world.

The organisers said that the pandemic has demonstrated how important data becomes at a time of crisis. But good data is essential whenever we are faced with complex questions about what is going on in society.

Sir Spiegelhalter will tell some stories from his own experience, from investigating whether a serial murderer could have been caught earlier, to measuring human sexual behaviour, to showing that statistical and data science are vital skills in the modern world.

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE, is Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, which aims to improve the way that statistical evidence is used by health professionals, patients, lawyers and judges, media and policy-makers.

He presented the BBC4 documentaries “Tails you Win: the Science of Chance,” the award-winning “Climate Change by Numbers,” and in 2011 came 7th in an episode of BBC1’s Winter Wipeout. His bestselling book, The Art of Statistics, was published in March 2019, and Covid by Numbers came out in September 2021.

Spiegelhalter was knighted in 2014 for services to medical statistics, was President of the Royal Statistical Society (2017-2018), and became a Non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority in 2020. Sir Spiegelhalter will use during the presentation video clips from BBC film productions.

This discussion, which is on Tuesday, the 15th of March, will be live streamed on the CineXjenza Facebook page at 7pm for those who cannot attend the event in person but who still wish to discuss the event’s main themes.

For more information and to book please click here.

CineXjenza is supported by the STEAM project. It is run by S-Cubed, together with the Malta Chamber of Scientists, in collaboration with Spazju Kreattiv.

Creative team: Giulia Maria Tabone, Ana Rajic, Edward Duca, André Xuereb, Anna D’Alessandro. To stay up to date with information pleas see: S-Cubed: https://www.facebook.com/Science.Students.Society and CineXjenza: https://www.facebook.com/CineXjenza/

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