Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation at Office for Statistics Regulation, talks with President of the Royal Statistical Society, Deborah Ashby, and philosopher Baroness Onora O’Neill about how we can improve communication about statistics, as part of Civil Service World’s latest podcast.
The podcast was recorded at the 2019 Office for Statistics Regulation Conference, held in London in November.
The event saw the Office for Statistics Regulation launch their Regulatory Vision of what they do and why, with their broad ambitions for future development.
Speakers included Professor Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician and Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, noted statistician and Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The audience was made up of notable guests from inside and outside government, including statistics users, producers, analysts, factcheckers, and journalists.
Listen to the podcast via Soundcloud, here: