Galton's family data on human stature

For 100th Anniversary of Student's 1908 paper

Bridge of Life   (Cultural imagery and statistical models of the force of mortality)

Pandemics

Down the Victorian data mine   Historical data finding   More material on Berry Bros. & Rudd

How Deep Is The Ocean? [ Additional Oceanography Material ]

Longevity of Titanic Survivors   [ Data and related material ]

Gosset - Counting yeast cells
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    [See 2022 article on the Poisson Distribution ]
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Rutherford - Counting alpha-particles

U.S. Selective Service Lotteries, 1917-2019

Penrose and Fisher - The first conditional logistic regression     [1934]

Statistical Sudoku - can you recreate the 3 way frequencies behind this table?
    [ from publication by Lionel Penrose on what is now called Down's Syndrome ]

Inoculations --> 'Vaccinations'

Important historical publications - under construction

Updated October 16, 2024

(b) Ireland / Beara / Bere Island

• Vaccinations then (1796, and Cork 1800) and now / Covid

      - Article in 2021 Bere Island Christmas Newsletter
      - More (including radio interviews, sources etc.)
  

• The Great Eastern cable-laying ship in Berehaven (1865/1866)

      - Article in 2020 Bere Island Christmas Newsletter
      - 2 articles and radio interview/Youtube video | More material (cable-laying, etc)

• The last Census of Ireland under British rule: Bere Island (1911)

      - Infographic in 2020 Bere Island Christmas Newsletter

• The War of Independence

      - Guncotton raid; attacks on Allihies RIC Barracks & Ballycrovane Coast Guard Station

• The last days spent in the Bere Island Internment Camp (1921)

      - Inteview on Bere Island Community Radio, Dec 2021   |   Youtube
      - More material on the Camp

• Mary Mullins (1910-2002), District Nurse in Bere Island 1935-1975

      - Bere Island Community Archive
      - Larger document the webpage is based on

• Bere Island's Contribution to the Schools' Folklore Collection (1937-1938)

      - Temporarily here for testing purposes only;
          [ will ultimately be available on Bere Island Community Archive ]

• Rabbiting on Bere Island in the 1940s and 50s

      - Bere Island Community Archive | View 'piece' on the Youtube link
      - Written article
  

• The Coming of the ESB To Bere Island 1957-1958.

      - part of 'Coming of ESB to Rural Ireland / CTB / Bere Island '
  

• Islands of Munster: Bere Island (1959/60)

      Radio Éireann broadcast January 1960, based on a day visit in September 1959

      - Reconstructed Script -- and background materials
      - Biography of the person who wrote the script
  

• UCC classmate John J. O'Sullivan (Glengarriff), 1948-2006

      - a career that remained under the radar
      - The video referred to in the article (.mp4)
          ... the portion concerning John begins about six minutes in.

• Amateur Radio Enthusiast Bernie O'Sullivan, 1933-2016

      - audio & visuals (.mp4)
          ... "Feeling like Marconi, talking with royalty and astronauts, and looking into the future"
   
  

  Updated June 30, 2025

   
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