Tommy Jones and Yeseul Jeon were recently named winners of the 2021 Text Analysis Interest Group presentation competition for talks they gave at the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings.

During JSM 2020, ASA Text Analysis Interest Group award committee members systematically evaluated a large body of research in the growing field of text analysis and presented awards to Qiuyi Wu and Enshuo Hsu for theirs.

The ASA’s Text Analysis Interest Group (TAIG) has had a productive first full year. TAIG brings together individuals and groups who have an active interest in text analysis, text mining, natural language processing, and related areas of research at their intersection with statistics.

The ASA’s big tent grew bigger recently with the addition of the Text Analysis Interest Group (TAIG). The group was petitioned in the fall of 2018 and formally approved by the Council of Sections Executive Committee in March 2019.

To aid our members working in subdisciplines of statistics, the ASA has 28 sections and six interest groups, which are subject-area and/or industry related and provide benefits specific to their members’ interests.

Global Community Service Foundation wanted to expand its maternal and infant care program and partnered with Statistics without Borders to formulate a program evaluation and find ways of expansion.

Statistics Instructors in Cyberspace is a new ASA special interest group that supports statistics educators who teach online courses and/or have an interest in online teaching and online learning.

Statistics Without Borders will provide pro-bono instructors for the Pyongyang Summer Institute (PSI) in Survey Science and Quantitative Methodology in North Korea this summer. The PSI is an intensive, international teaching program at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), the first and only private and international university, which was launched in North Korea in the fall of 2010.

The Interest Group for Medical Devices and Diagnostics encourages interested ASA members to join. This interest group was established more than three years ago and was recently renewed for another three years by the Council of Sections.