Books

Fundamentals of Computing, 1984, Hutchinson

General Studies (Ed), 1991, Penguin

 

Papers

One wave or three? A problem for realism (1985)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/687402 

A Statistician’s Approach to Goldbach’s Conjecture (2003)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9639.00108

Great Expectations? (2004)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2004.00176.x

The Generalized Mean (2008)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2004.0141a.x

With Dick Hudson: Language of the stars (2018)

https://dickhudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Dick-Hudson-and-Neil-Sheldon.pdf

Statistics: Insight not numbers (2019)

https://www.meits.org/files/dialogues/uploads/sheldon.pdf

What does it all mean? (2019)

https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01296.x

International Data Science in Schools Project (2020)

https://iase-web.org/documents/papers/rt2020/IASE2020%20Roundtable%2035_SHELDON.pdf?1610923749

Horror aequi (2021)

https://isi-web.org/article/statisticians-react-news/horror-aequi

With Neville Davies: Teaching Statistics and Data Science in England's Schools (2021)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/test.12276

With Sangita Kulathinal: Communicating with statistics (2024)

    Communicating with statistics 


Reports to which I have contributed

Digital technologies and mathematics education (2011)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281178021_Digital_technologies_and_mathematics_education_Executive_Summary

Shut down or restart (2012)

https://royalsociety.org/-/media/education/computing-in-schools/2012-01-12-computing-in-schools.pdf

International Data Science in Schools Project (2019)

http://www.idssp.org/files/IDSSP_Frameworks_1.0.pdf

 

Video lectures

We need to talk about statistics, Alan Turing Institute (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB9qLNZZs_g

We need to talk about statistics, Glasgow (2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6gW1vkH4qU