Hannah Fry
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Biography: Dr. Hannah Fry is a lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL. She works alongside a unique mix of physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, architects and geographers to study the patterns in human behaviour - particularly in an urban setting. Her research applies to a wide range of social problems and questions, from shopping and transport to urban crime, riots and terrorism.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Harlow, Essex, England, UK
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10 Things You Need to Know About the Future
Overview: Horizon interviews some experts and looks at the matters which can change our lives in the future, like: climate change, the future of transport, energy production, gene therapy, artificial intelligence, among other things.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-19
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Unvaccinated
Overview: Hannah Fry meets seven unvaccinated people to investigate why around four million adults remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, and to find out if any of them will change their mind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-20
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Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing
Overview: Ada Lovelace was a most unlikely computer pioneer. In this film, Dr Hannah Fry tells the story of Ada's remarkable life. Born in the early 19th century, Ada was a countess of the realm, a scandalous socialite and an 'enchantress of numbers'. The film is an enthralling tale of how a life infused with brilliance, but blighted by illness and gambling addiction, helped give rise to the modern era of computing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-17
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The Joy of Data
Overview: A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech romp reveals what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of us have never heard of despite the fact they brought about a technological and philosophical revolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-20
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Climate Change By Numbers
Overview: A look at three key numbers that clarify the important questions on climate change, giving a unique perspective on what we know about the past, present and future of our climate.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-02
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The Joy of Winning
Overview: How to have a happier life and a better world all thanks to maths, in this witty, mind-expanding guide to the science of success with Hannah Fry. Following in the footsteps of BBC Four's award-winning maths films The Joy of Stats and The Joy of Data, this latest gleefully nerdy adventure sees mathematician Dr Hannah Fry unlock the essential strategies you'll need to get what you want - to win - more of the time. From how to bag a bargain dinner to how best to stop the kids arguing on a long car journey, maths can give you a winning strategy. And the same rules apply to the world's biggest problems - whether it's avoiding nuclear annihilation or tackling climate change.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-28
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Britain's Greatest Invention
Overview: BBC Two takes us inside the world's biggest invention time capsule - the Science Museum vaults - and asks the nation to vote for Britain's Greatest Invention.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-15
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A Day in the Life of Earth
Overview: Presenter Hannah Fry reveals how much our planet can change in just a single day and how these daily changes are essential to our existence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-31
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Made by Machine: When AI Met the Archive
Overview: Dr Hannah Fry and a virtual host present a new way of making television, as the BBC uses artificial intelligence to delve into the treasures of the BBC Archive.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-05
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Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic
Overview: The government rates the global outbreak of a deadly flu virus as a major threat to the UK. It could happen at any time. To predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurately than ever before, new data is needed. Dr Hannah Fry is on the case. She sets out to recruit the nation to download the BBC Pandemic app in a ground-breaking experiment to help plan for when that happens. How quickly will it spread? How many could it kill? What can we do about it? Hannah masterminds the experiment and adopts the role of Patient Zero by walking the streets to launch the outbreak. Meanwhile, an emergency physician finds out why flu is still such a danger a century after flu killed up to 100mi people. He meets researchers trying to discover what makes some people more contagious and visits a factory that will produce vaccine when the next pandemic flu virus emerges. Armed with the information he gathers and the results of the BBC Four Pandemic experiment, they make a shocking revelation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-22
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Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry
Overview: Hannah Fry, a professor of math, is used to investigating the world around her through numbers. When she's diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 36, she starts to interrogate the way we diagnose and treat cancer by digging into the statistics to ask whether we are making the right choices in how we treat this disease. Are we sometimes too quick to screen and treat cancer? Do doctors always speak to us honestly about the subject? It may seem like a dangerous question to ask, but are we at risk of overmedicalizing cancer? At the same time, Hannah records her own cancer journey in raw and emotional personal footage, where the realities of life after a cancer diagnosis are laid bare.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-02
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