The Quality and Productivity (Q&P) Section will offer one invited session at JSM 2018. Leading with Statistics: Process Monitoring and Improvement will cover a range of important and contemporary topics such as using baseline data in process improvement, control charts and multivariate process monitoring, and the real-time monitoring of events. Subhabrata Chakraborti of the University of Alabama is organizing the session.

Q&P is also sponsoring the following two roundtable discussions:

• Dynamic Data Visualization, led by Blanton Godfrey and Lori Rothenberg of North Carolina State University
• Preparing Statisticians to Be Successful Data Scientists in Big Data Era, led by Ming Li of Amazon