Ben Parker
@benmparker
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Statistician, Lover of Puns and tea.
London, UK
Joined December 2009
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The great British public have spoken. Die Hard is clearly not a Xmas movie.
And for the inevitable complaints about 8% of Britons saying that Die Hard is their favourite Christmas movie, here is what films Britons do and don't consider to be festive flicks - Die Hard is seen as NOT a Christmas movie at a rate of 46% to 37%
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Delighted to reveal that after an intense training course in a secret bunker in Central London, I am joining the @RoyalStatSoc Statistical Ambassadors for 2024...
🎉 Exciting news! We're thrilled to introduce our new cohort of Statistical Ambassadors! They'll be sharing their passion for statistics and data science through media and public outreach. 🌟 Read more:
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@SphealKent Great work. Would be interested to see how you did this- did you do it manually or write some code? Would be an interesting student project...
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What has @bbcelection done with John Curtice...not been on air for several hours! #Elections2024
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@robin_statsman I suspect exit poll will be wrong as well- for similar reasons! I wonder as well if they have corrected the polls now we seem to be in a multi -party state
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Not sure I quite believe it, but @LibDems as HM Opposition would be an amazing indictment of the current government...
@SamCoatesSky Seats per Electoral Calculus LAB 471 LDM 73 CON 61 RFM 5 GRN 2 SNP 14 PLC 4 OTHER 2 (speaker + Corbyn)
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Whoever is in charge of media relations for @LibDems is on 🔥.
Something something political spin
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@djstimms @electoralreform @Gilesyb @Samfr @Dylan_Difford @thomasforth @dc_lawrence @undertheraedar @jburnmurdoch @mundawepasi Interested in the technicalities of how you did this- what software, etc, did you use and did you make it available. It is a great idea but would be interested to compare it with other systems to see how proportional it is... maybe an academic paper or an MSc Project!
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RT @djstimms: Could we have a proportionally representative parliament… *and* keep "one constituency, one MP" *without* needing lots of "…
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RT @CockertonMark: “He’s gone where? Oh my god, to Morrisons! To do a f*cking photoshoot sniffing a loaf of f*cking bread! You know they’ll…
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Here's to six weeks of swingometers, stats, and let's hope for a nice clean campaign and some new ideas from someone.
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