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[1 Feb 2022 | Comments Off on The ASA Committee on Professional Ethics: Promoting Data for Good | 596 views]

This year, Stats4Good will feature a series of columns focusing on the many ways the functions, committees, events, and groups within the American Statistical Association support this important work. The first stop on our tour is the Committee on Professional Ethics.

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[1 Jan 2022 | Comments Off on Data for Good: The Year in Review | 589 views]

David Corliss looks back on 2021 and discusses both the challenges and opportunities the Data for Good community had.

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[1 Dec 2021 | Comments Off on Data for Good in a Post-Pandemic World | 394 views]

This month in Stats4Good, David Corliss discusses the post-pandemic “new normal” in Data for Good, where the experiences and technology of working remotely are changing Data for Good—for good!

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[1 Nov 2021 | Comments Off on Stats4Good: UN International Computing Centre Supports Global D4G Projects | 799 views]
Stats4Good: UN International Computing Centre Supports Global  D4G Projects

The United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) is an agency with global scope that provides data solutions for United Nations (UN) programs and initiatives. In addition to providing data services and infrastructure for UN organizations and initiatives, UNICC organizes hackathons and other events with participation from teams worldwide.

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[1 Oct 2021 | Comments Off on Stats4Good: Peace Award Recognizes Biostatistician, Teacher, and Mentor Michael H. Kutner | 829 views]

David Corliss says that, by awarding the Peace Award to Kutner, the ASA has honored a person dedicated to strengthening the statistical profession and statisticians for generations to come.

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[1 Sep 2021 | Comments Off on State of the Education Data Infrastructure: What Three Experts Have to Say About the National Center for Education Statistics | 4,156 views]

For the state of the data infrastructure series, the ASA Count on Stats team spoke with three experts on the National Center for Education Statistics: James L. Woodworth, Jack Buckley, and Felice J. Levine.

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[1 Sep 2021 | One Comment | 2,635 views]
Saving Endangered Languages with AI and the Science of Communication

David Corliss tells us that using AI to save a threatened language from extinction can save the culture itself.

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[1 Aug 2021 | One Comment | 504 views]

The Committee on Applied Statisticians (CAS) has organized several sessions covering a range of topics during this year’s virtual JSM.

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[1 Aug 2021 | Comments Off on Data4Good Goes Back to School: Capstone Projects for the Greater Good | 773 views]

Five great students from different backgrounds and unique skills, all working with one goal in mind: identify risk factors and hotspots for human trafficking in Appalachian Ohio. What brought this amazing D4G team together? A capstone project.

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[1 Jul 2021 | Comments Off on JSM 2021: Data for Good and the Stories It Tells | 1,210 views]

David Corliss recommends making JSM 2021 the event that will help you tell your own Data for Good story and offers suggestions for sessions and search terms to get involved.