Statistics

Statistics are MPs favourite weapons. Question time is heavy with mutually exclusive numbers - which are usually all true. Audio

Data scientist Hadley Wickham is developing open source ways to help people collect and analyse the information that surrounds us every day. He's yet to meet a data set he doesn't like and loves… Audio

David Spiegelhalter has built a career sorting the lies from the statistics. In his new book The Art of Statistics the Cambridge Professor shares his passion for data, scientific evidence and risk… Audio

Why is data from last year's census still delayed, a year after the natiowide official survey? Statistics New Zealand says it has had to delay the release of any information as it reckons with a lower… Audio

Good data journalism makes lots of important information easily understandable and it clarifies complicated issues for us. But visiting expert Alberto Cairo warns we must also beware of visualisations… Video, Audio

If your family is struggling to complete a Lego set this holidays, you might not be alone. New Zealand researchers have just mathematically proven the brightly coloured bricks sets are now more… Audio

Pumpkin prices are the highest they've been since Statistics New Zealand started monitoring them in 1993. It's averaging $5.78 a kilo - 176 percent higher than a year ago. Kumara has also nearly… Audio

Statistician Thomas Lumley explains different ways of calculating an average, and the difference between median and mean. Audio

Statistics New Zealand is thinking about changing the religion categories for the Census. Audio