David Hand (statistician)
David John Hand OBE FBA (born 30 June 1950 in Peterborough)[2][4] is a British statistician.[5] He has written technical books on statistics, data mining, finance, classification methods, and measuring wellbeing, as well as science popularisation books including The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day;[6] Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters;[7] and Statistics: A Very Short Introduction.[3] Hand served as professor of statistics at the Open University from 1988 until 1999, when he moved to Imperial College London, where he is now[when?][9] Hand has published 31 books, inter alia: Hand has published over 300 scientific articles, inter alia: Hand has received various awards for his work, including being elected Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1999, the Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society in 2002, the IEEE ICDM Outstanding Contributions Award in 2004, the Credit Collections and Risk Award for Contributions to the Credit Industry in 2012, the George Box Medal for Business and Industrial Statistics in 2016, and the International Federation of Classification Societies Research Medal in 2019.He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to research and innovation.