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Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Professor of the Practice of Data Science, Washington University in St Louis
Aerial view of deforested area of the Amazon rainforest.PARALAXIS/Shutterstock.com

This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Decade.

Much like Oxford English Dictionary’s “Word of the Year” competition, the international statistic is meant to capture the...

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