David Spiegelhalter

David Spiegelhalter is a British statistician, author, and broadcaster who is one of the world's leading communicators of risk and statistics. He is a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was the Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk. The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data is an accessible guide to understanding statistics and data in everyday life — from medical research to election polls to crime rates. The book shows how statistical thinking can help us make sense of the world and avoid being misled. Spiegelhalter was awarded a knighthood for services to statistics. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers an essential, accessible guide to understanding statistics — because knowing how to read data is one of the most important skills in the modern world.