The third World Statistics Day will be celebrated around the globe today, 20th October 2020 with the theme “Connecting the world with data we can trust.”
The first World Statistics Day (20-10-2010) was celebrated in over 130 countries and areas including Ghana, 51 other African Countries, and the day are celebrated every five years.
World Statistics Day on October 20 aims to show that good data and statistics are indispensable for informed decision-making by all actors in society.
Statistics is a way of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, presenting, and organizing data. Applying statistics to larger groups of data gives a general overview of issues, including scientific, industrial, or social problems.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
