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Why is data so important in determining how we live?
Tim Harford on how good policies depend on the availability of reliable statistics
World Cup in Qatar: How many migrant workers have died?
Examining the wildly varying estimates of deaths in the run-up to the tournament in Qatar
When do food shortages become a famine?
With Somalia in crisis, we ask how data is used to officially declare a famine
A $220 billion World Cup?
Has hosting the Fifa football World Cup really cost Qatar $220bn?
Improving the numbers in the news
Tim Harford discusses the role statistics should play in the reporting of the news
Lula’s 'zero deforestation' plan for the Amazon
How much of the rainforest has been lost? And can Brazil’s new president save it?
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
Are China’s most recent figures for economic growth wrong?
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
We look into a claim that 50% of new books in the US sell just a handful of copies.
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
Tim Harford explains the work of this year’s Nobel Economics Prize winners
Catching chess cheats with data
A cheating scandal is rocking the world of chess - and data is at its heart
