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4. This Train Has Been Delayed

It鈥檚 2016 and Singapore鈥檚 metro system is misbehaving wildly. The rail engineers and company officials are flummoxed. Can data save the day?

Singapore, 2016. A high-tech driverless train system starts glitching in wild and unpredictable ways. The train company, the government, even the military are at a loss: no-one can figure out what is causing the problem. Until Jason Bay and his team of data scientists assemble an old-fashioned timetabling graph, first developed in 19th century France, which exposes an invisible culprit.

Behind every line on a graph, there lies an extraordinary human story. And mathematician Hannah Fry is here to tell us ten of them.

Hannah Fry tells a tale of data detectives and very naughty trains.

Episode Producer: Ilan Goodman
Sound Design: Jon Nicholls
Story Editor: John Yorke

A series for Radio 4 by 成人快手 Science in Cardiff.

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13 minutes

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Wed 24 Apr 2024 20:45

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