Edward Wu started as the ASA science policy fellow in September, becoming the fourth person to hold the position.
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My ASA Story: Richard Zink, Biostatistician and Podcaster
Zink is the co-host of ASA Biopharm’s Podcast and says volunteering has been good for his career and allowed him to help the next generation of statisticians and data scientists.
Surveys, Dashboards, and Innovations in Response to COVID-19
ASA members share their experiences and offer insights into how COVID-19 has changed and will continue to change statistics and data science.
Get to the Decision: Briefing Analysis in the Pentagon
Analysis must clearly support decision-making and be easily consumable for busy Pentagon executives. The key to successfully briefing a Pentagon executive is focusing on the decision the analysis supports.
Imposter to Expert: One Woman’s Journey to Statistician
Deliverance Bougie had an unconventional journal into the field of statistics. Conquering learning challenges, she now educates elected officials on statistical practices.
What’s Our Point? Flipping the Paradigm for Communication in Statistics and Data Science
What if we have been going about communicating the message and importance of our statistics and data science work upside down? How we talk to each other is different than how others receive and understand information, including decision-makers, policy advisers, industry leaders, the media, and the public.
Emma Benn: Professor, Mentor, Interpreter, and Advocate
In addition to serving as an associate professor and the associate dean for faculty well-being and development at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Emma Benn launched and was named founding director of the Center for Scientific Diversity. She is learning to better communicate inclusivity in the classroom and doing everything she can to raise awareness that different voices and people make our field stronger.
Barry Nussbaum: EPA ‘Statistics Guy’ and Persuasive Communicator
In 2017, Nussbaum served as ASA president and placed communication and engagement among his top presidential initiatives. His interpersonal communications strategy became a foundation for his famous mantra, “It’s not what we said; it’s not what they heard; it’s what they say they heard.”
The End of an Era: The Closing of SAMSI
Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) director David Banks discusses the successes and impact of the institute, which closed its doors recently.
Communicate Statistics, Engage Students with Personal Experiences
Jaya Satagopan uses agriculture data on corn yield, the motor trend car road tests data set, and the New York transportation fuels data from Kaggle to motivate students to learn about types of variables, statistical summaries, data visualization, and hypothesis testing.