https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHeOrISYWDA Spotting fake data with Benford's Law In the current digital age it's never been easier to fake data - and so it's never been more important to have tools to detect data that has been faked. Benford's Law is an extremely useful way of testing data - because when people fake data they tend... Continue Reading →
Benford’s Law – Using Maths to Catch Fraudsters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIsDjbhbADY Benford's Law - Using Maths to Catch Fraudsters Benford's Law is a very powerful and counter-intuitive mathematical rule which determines the distribution of leading digits (ie the first digit in any number). You would probably expect that distribution would be equal - that a number 9 occurs as often as a number 1. But... Continue Reading →