• Sebastian Wernicke
• Statistician

• Speaking at TED2010
• February 2010
• Long Beach, CA

Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks): In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating "the optimum TEDTalk" based on user ratings. How do you rate it? "Jaw-dropping"? "Unconvincing"? Or just plain "Funny"?