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Behind every line on a graph, there lies an extraordinary human story. Mathematician Hannah Fry is here to tell us ten of them. Show more
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In a few specific years across the 20th century, the proportion of boys born mysteriously spiked. Hannah Fry follows one researcher’s obsessive quest to find out why. Show more
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Michael Mann was a respected climate scientist, unknown outside of a small academic circle, until he produced a graph that shocked the world and changed his life forever. Show more
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Hannah Fry tells how a single sheet of A4 uncovered a dark pattern and a serial murderer hiding in plain sight. Show more
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It’s 2016 and Singapore’s metro system is misbehaving wildly. The rail engineers and company officials are flummoxed. Can data save the day? Show more
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John Carter has a terrible choice to make. One path offers glory, the other to death. His decision hinges on one graph, but can it help him take the right road? Show more
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What makes you happy? Life’s ups and downs can be pretty unpredictable. But hidden deep in the data, two economists have found a surprising pattern: happiness is U shaped. Show more
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A Hungarian tile manufacturing company is plagued by false gossip and poor morale. Can the emerging science of networks come to the rescue? Show more
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How do you age with grace? Hannah Fry follows a researcher whose search takes him to the most unlikely of places: a convent. Show more
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A young researcher gains access to a secretive data set and discovers something shocking. What happens when a system designed to help people harms them instead? Show more
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Thomas Herndon was a student when he discovered an anomaly which, if true, will shake the intellectual foundations of a global movement and undermine politicians around the world. Show more
