Ep. 850: David Hand Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is David J. Hand, an emeritus professor of mathematics and senior research investigator at Imperial College London, a former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and a fellow of the British Academy. His many previous books include The Improbability Principle, Measurement: A Very Short Introduction, Statistics: A Very Short Introduction, and Principles of Data Mining.
The topic is his book Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- David Hand
- Improbability principle
- Statistics
- Underestimating variability
- Improbability principles
- Fabricated data
- Social Sciences
Jump in!
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.3 | My guest today has what you might call a deep CV, a deep resume. |
| 0:41.7 | David Hans, statistician from the UK, the author of 30 books. |
| 0:48.7 | Think about that, ladies and gentlemen, 30 books. |
| 0:53.0 | That is immense attention to detail. |
| 0:57.0 | Amense discipline. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm the author of a handful of books. |
| 1:03.3 | 30. |
| 1:04.9 | Damn. |
| 1:06.2 | Some of his titles that you should definitely check out, |
| 1:09.9 | the one we're talking about today, his newest book, |
| 1:12.5 | Dark Data, and the book before that, the improbability principle, definitely worth your time, |
| 1:19.5 | will absolutely cause you to think a hell of a lot more. |
| 1:25.8 | And as a side note, David also spent eight years as chief science advisor to Winton Capital. |
| 1:32.6 | That would be the firm started by David Harding. |
| 1:35.7 | Without any further delay, let's jump right into my interview with statistician David Hand. |
| 1:40.9 | Thank you. David Hand. |
| 2:00.7 | Going through your Wikipedia entry, I can see a lifetime of study, a lifetime in pursuing a feel that a lot of us mere mortals don't really wrap our arms |
| 2:04.7 | around completely. That's just one of the constraints that we're going to deal with in this |
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