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)
Reports to which I have contributed
Digital technologies and mathematics education (2011)
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