In this episode of JMP On Air’s Meet the Author, Anne Milley interviews Sir David Spiegelhalter. A good friend of JMP, and the keynote presenter at the JMP Discovery Summit (Munich) in Spring of 2020, David Spiegelhalter discusses his new book, The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data. Spiegelhalter says the book shows us how to extract knowledge from raw data, think critically (like a statistician) and explains why a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever if we hope to separate fact from fiction. Given the current circumstances in the world, Spiegelhalter, an expert in uncertainty and risk, is in high demand these days. While we’re seeing numbers and statistics related to the current pandemic, Spiegelhalter cautions us against taking statistics at face value, encouraging us to look deeper at the numbers. Understanding the context around the numbers, Spiegelhalter insists, and the visualization of data are both critical to telling the story behind the numbers.