{"id":382,"date":"2023-08-30T17:21:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/james@data-cubed.co.uk"},"modified":"2023-08-30T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:21:58","slug":"data-can-give-us-fascinating-insights-into-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/data-cubed.eu\/blog\/data-can-give-us-fascinating-insights-into-the-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Apocalyptic volcanic super eruption is much closer than we thought’, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Data can give us some truly fascinating insights into the world around us. In this blog post Jonathan Rougier, one of our resident statisticians, tells us about some of his work researching explosive volcanism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The interesting thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard, as John Tukey famously said (famously if you’re a statistician!). Over my career so far I have covered topics from avalanches (Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research) to extreme weather early warning systems (UK Met Office). I’ve even helped to create a phone app to identify birds from their songs<\/a>, AKA “Shazam for birds”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the most interesting topics has been explosive volcanism, working with scientists in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. They have compiled the definitive database of large explosive eruptions, LaMEVE. This database (held as a spreadsheet) represents many thousands of hours of fieldwork, and also a lot of theory, about how to invert geological traces of eruptions like ash layers back to an assessment of eruption magnitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of our papers had some eye-catching results concerning ‘super-eruptions’, as reported by the Huffington Post in their article, \u2018This is what super volcanoes mean for the future of humanity\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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