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🔎 How can randomized controlled experiments strengthen public policy in the Nordic region?

Join us for the Nordic Economic Policy Review Conference to discuss experimental designs, results, methodologies & policy implications

🗓️ 4 Nov
📍 Hanaholmen (Espoo) & Online

🔗 nordregio.org/events/advan...

Applications open for 2-year CDS Faculty Fellows starting Sept 2026.

Fellows lead independent research across computational methods & domain sciences, teach 1 course/year, and have funding for research and travel.

6 openings.

Deadline: Nov 24.

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/174686

Chinese citizens were twice as optimistic as Americans about the benefits of AI, according to 2022 Stamford Institute research.

Exploring global attitudes toward AI reveals how culture shapes trust in technology.

Source: The National Bureau of Asian Research
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"Without adaptation, flood-related costs could soar to an estimated $1 trillion per year globally by the end of the century."

Read Ieva Kazlauskai's blog for the LSE Department of Statistics' 'The Measure of it' here👇:

tinyurl.com/mt4a6t9n

It's a new week - and a new Stat of the Day:

The estimated cost to British car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover per week in lost production of the recent attack on its IT systems.

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Source: BBC

What can we learn about youth crime from weekday school closures? | British Politics and Policy at LSE Schools are lauded for their ability to keep young people away from crime and on the right path. But what happens behind the school gates?

CEP researchers Janine Boshoff and @McmSandi.bsky.social examine schools’ role in keeping young people away from crime, revealing that schoolyard conflict complicates a simple narrative.

Read:

Celebrate Members Week 2025: A Week of Insight, Recognition and Connection

🎉 Members Week is coming!

🗓️ From 13–17 Oct, we celebrate our amazing members, with events designed to show you how to make the most of our membership offering 🌟

Read the full programme 🔗 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Our Statistics and data science seminar series is back!

And we're live and online with the @manchester.ac.uk's Dr Wei Pan or his talk exploring how machine learning can enable adaptive reactive intelligence in robotic systems.

Join us on Teams here!: tinyurl.com/395xjmxw

Are you a statistician, a data user, or someone with an interest in statistics?

Why not join our active community of more than 12,000 members? Fellow membership is open to all, and you can join online today: rss.org.uk/membership/j...

Aviation is the focus of today's Stat of the Day. Noticed that the airport was busy on your last trip? A record 81m passengers passed through UK airports in Q2 2025.

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Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority

It was fantastic to see so many Statistics #alumni attending our 'recent graduate panel talk' last night!

Our alumni spoke about succeeding at LSE, job and MSc applications and gave lots of handy tips to our BSc students too. The night ended with networking drinks and nibbles.

We've launched our new blog 'The Measure of it' which showcases research/industry related projects!

Our 1st post by Dr Kazlauskaite 'enhances the realism of ice sheet models by both ice fracture mechanics & ice-ocean interactions into a unified framework'🧊

🔗https://tinyurl.com/mt4a6t9n

🌌Stat of the day! 👨‍🚀

Did you know that the International Space Station orbits the Earth 16 times in just 24 hours?

Completing one orbit in about 90 minutes means astronauts on the ISS get to see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets each day!☀️

Source: @NASA

Better late than never! - today's Stat of the Day arrives in UK agricultural sector form: the average size in acres of farms in the North East region in 2023. This is the largest average farm size of all the English regions.

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Source: @DefraGovUK

🚨It's live! The Department's blog 'The Measure of it' kicks off with our very first post - by Ieva Kazlauskaite and John Barlow, who introduce an upcoming project re forecasting the behaviour of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the age of global warming.🇦🇶🧊

Read it here👉https://tinyurl.com/mt4a6t9n

Australia has an abundance of sunshine, and the country is a world leader in solar panels per capita. For today's Stat of the Day we have the amount of Australia's total electricity generated in 2024 by rooftop solar. 🇦🇺🦘☀️🏠⚡️

Source: @iea.org

📢Calling all LSE Statistics students!

At 16:00 GMT today: The first of three hackathon workshops organised by @awscloud.bsky.social

Join & submit a generative AI app idea with prizes, mentorship & showing employers what you can do with AI on offer.

Info & reg: info.devpost.com/aws-student-...

Using economic statistics to explain recent UK inflation - ESCoE This blog explores how combining multiple datasets and using economic modelling reveals the main drivers of 2021–2024 inflation.

How can we use economic statistics to explain recent UK inflation?

A new ESCoE Discussion Paper by Jonathan Haskel, @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and Lennart Brandt uses a range of economic statistics to shed light on the recent UK inflation experience.

Read the blog: tinyurl.com/npc595r7

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Have you visited ASA Career Connect? The site features articles, including the post by Steve Jackson: A Day in the Life of a Consulting Statistician. Jackson details how he supports transportation safety research.

With the state pension expected to rise by 4.7% from next April in line with annual earnings growth, today's Stat of the Day looks at pensions - the number of self-employed individuals in the UK making individual contributions to a personal pension in 2023-24.

Source: HMRC

💷 Stat of the Day

In 2023, people in Wales had an average of £20,140 available per head to spend or save.

(Source: Stats Wales)

📊 Understanding how disposable income varies across regions helps us see the bigger picture of economic wellbeing and inequality.

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🇮🇹 Pisa, Italy → #LSEStatistics on the global stage!

✨ Dr Giulia Livieri helped organise the ML-DYN 2025 conference at Scuola Normale Superiore

🎤 Prof. Tengyao Wang presented on “Timely Decisions: Sequential and High-Dimensional Changepoint Detection”

📊 Stat of the Day

The size of the U.S. goods and services deficit reached $78.3 billion in July 2025 — up $19.2 billion from $59.1 billion in June.

(Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis)

🎲 Stat of the Day 🎲

💷 £15.6 billion – that’s the total gross gambling yield (GGY) of the gambling industry between April 2023 and March 2024.

📊 Source: Gambling Commission

⚡️Newsflash!⚡️

The LSE Department of Statistics has a communications new communications venture coming down the tracks...a statistics research-focused blog 'The Measure of it'.

Keep your eyes peeled!

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For today's Stat of the Day we look to the Commonwealth - an international association of 56 member states, the majority of which were territories of the former British Empire - and the projected size of their combined GDP in 2027.

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Source: The Commonwealth

AI models must adapt or die The technology has already consumed almost all high-quality data — experience is now the dominant medium of improvement

‘almost all the high-quality data that could improve an AI agent’s performance has been consumed’
Seeing more pieces recently worrying that generative AI is starting to get diminishing gains
on.ft.com/4nvInGq

Wealth and assets workshop - ESCoE ESCoE and Experian will run a workshop on developing wealth and assets survey data for the UK.

⏰Last chance to register for ESCoE's Wealth and Assets Workshop with @experian.com.

The event aims to explore how existing data on consumer savings, investment and wealth could be improved to enable better decision making.

Register by Monday 22 Sept: escoe.ac.uk/events/wealth-and-assets-workshop

ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one? - Impact of Social Sciences Large language models like ChatGPT adopt aspects of human speech to give the impression of human intelligence. George Gaskell highlights the limits of ChatGPT’s conversational ethics, common sense and...

💥New: ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one?

✍️George Gaskell (@lsemethodology.bsky.social)

#ChatGPT #Ethics #ConversationAnalysis

All aboard the Stat of the Day bus - as today we look to the number of local bus journeys made in the UK (outside London) in 2023-24 - 1.8bn journeys.

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Source: Department for Transport