David Spiegelhalter

Using a crystal ball to see into the future may not be possible (or even reliable), but there are ways to work out what might happen in the coming years and decades. In this engaging event Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter takes us through how we can all use data to understand risks and assess the chances of what might happen in the future, informing us about how the principles of probability can be used to think about everything from medical advice and climate change forecasts to football results. Offering a path through at a time of uncertainty, Spiegelhalter presents an authoritative and accessible discussion of data.

Spiegelhalter is the author of The Art of Uncertainty and The Art of Statistics. He is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge and was knighted in 2014 for services to medical statistics. He served as president of the Royal Statistical Society and in 2020 became a non-executive director of the UK Statistics Authority.