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Andrew Elliott grew up in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa, and studied statistics and actuarial science at the University of Cape Town. After a spell as a management consultant in the UK, he launched a series of start-up companies in financial technology. In 2016 Andrew started "Is That A Big Number?", a project to promote numeracy and the development of intuitive number sense.
Impressive statistics are thrown at us every day: the cost of health care, the distance to the nearest star, or the number of giraffes in the world. In this talk, Andrew Elliott tries to put the intimidating numbers into context, and gives useful tips and tools to make sense of such quantities, to get a sense of proportion, and to decipher what matters.
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