David J. Hand is an emeritus professor of mathematics and a senior research investigator at Imperial College London. He is the former president of the Royal Statistical Society and the chief scientific adviser to Winton Capital Management, one of Europe s most successful algorithmic-trading hedge funds. He is the author of several books, including "The Information Generation: How Data Rules Our World, ""Statistics: A Very Short Introduction", and "The Improbability" "Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day", has published more than three hundred scientific paper...