With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the ASA and its sister societies will sponsor three AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows in the federal government in each of the next two years.
Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month: What’s on the Agenda?
ASA has big plans to celebrate Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month in April, a full month of programs and initiatives dedicated to promoting better public understanding of mathematics and statistics.
No Joke: A-µ-sing Competition Entries Due April Fools’ Day
CAUSEweb.org’s A-µ-sing contest has a deadline of April 1, and the winners’ work will be highlighted at the US Conference on Teaching Statistics May 16–18. Entries can be as simple as a statistical haiku or joke or as involved as a music video.
Quality and Productivity Section News for February 2019
The 36th ASA Q&P Section’s Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be hosted by American University in Washington, DC, June 11–13.
Statistics: Proactive or Reactive?
The statistics profession’s reaction to data science prompted my colleague to ask this question: “Why does our profession often find itself in reactive mode—reacting to others’ direction—rather than being proactive and setting the direction ourselves?”
USA Science & Engineering Festival Team Expands Efforts to Cities Outside DC
The success of the annual X-STEM symposium in Washington, DC—an event featuring interactive presentations from STEM visionaries—has led the USA Science & Engineering Festival team to branch out.
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics to Hold Conference on Electronic Health Records
The Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics 12th Annual UPENN Conference on Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials will be held April 17.
Developing a Privacy Policy
A privacy policy should focus on ensuring the process and procedural actions to protect information are followed, regardless of whether personally identifiable information exists in a file. Members of the ASA Privacy and Confidentiality Committee provide guidance for developing such a policy here.
Stories of Significance Highlight North Carolina Chapter’s Fall Dinner
Nearly 100 statisticians from the North Carolina ASA community gathered for the 2018 Fall Dinner November 30. The theme was “Stories of Significance.”
Recharge Your Data Work at SDSS 2019
Drawing together a diverse crowd of data experts, SDSS 2019 will allow its participants to discover interesting and cutting-edge techniques for extracting knowledge from data.