When disability is not measured, it becomes difficult to understand the barriers people face, evaluate whether interventions are effective, or advocate for meaningful change. Collecting and maintaining disability data is fundamental to ensuring disabled people are visible in the evidence used to shape society.
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Statisticians with Disabilities Offer Personal, Professional Insights
Statisticians share their lived experiences, professional contributions, and perspectives, emphasizing both the challenges they face and the unique insights they bring to the field.
Apertus: An LLM Designed for Data for Good
Apertus is an open-source large language model created to advance transparency and accessibility while supporting research, education, and projects that benefit society.
JEDI CORNER: Making Data Visualizations Accessible
Making data visualizations accessible to blind and visually impaired people would help improve equity in higher education and assist them with data-driven reasoning and communication.
Embracing JEDI Is Embracing the Intellect of All
Dionne Price discusses the work the Anti-Racism Task Force is doing with the Nova Collective to move the ASA forward in its diversity, equity, and inclusion work.
JEDI Corner: From Visualization to ‘Sensification’
Data visualization and exploratory data analysis have been recognized in recent decades as important parts of statistics, but visualization excludes people with visual impairments, an increasingly important issue as the population gets older. How can statisticians and analysts provide some of the benefits of the dataviz revolution?
My ASA Story: Anja Zgodic, Biostatistics Doctoral Student
Anja Zgodic initially appreciated the ASA for its networking opportunities, but has now become a passionate member of the Committee on Statistics and Disability.
Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges for Online Seminars and Conferences
The spread of COVID-19 has slowed economies and stopped travel throughout the world. For academics, classes and research collaborations have moved online. But the pandemic has disrupted two other essential aspects of academic life: conferences and seminars. An obvious solution is to move conferences and seminars online, but this has proven challenging for a number of reasons.