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"Chance is a fool's name for fate," goes a quote from the movie The Gay Divorcee. Is "chance" a fundamental part of the universe? Does it have "rules"? Can you learn to love and live with the uncertainty? Watch and find out -- take a chance!

Join us on a witty, exhilarating exploration of THE word of our age – data – with mathematician Hannah Fry. What is data?  How is it stored, shared, made sense of…? And what does data reveal about us and the world?

Take a roller-coaster ride through philosophy, maths, science and technology, all of which run on logic. With wit, wisdom, and gleeful nerdery, this film journeys from Aristotle to Alice in Wonderland, Sci-Fi to Supercomputers, to tell the fascinating story of the fundamentals of sound reasoning.

Explore the remarkable power stats have to change our understanding of the world we live in. Our guide is superstar boffin Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening, mind-expanding, and very funny online lectures have made him an international internet legend.