ASA President Karen Kafadar convened the ASA Board meeting at the Hyatt Regency Denver prior to the start of JSM 2019.
Education
Statistics and Data Science Education Honors Members, Introduces New Projects
It was another stellar JSM under Section Program Chair Stacey Hancock and Roundtable/Birds-of-a-Feather Chair Amelia McNamara.
2019 Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) Workshop Attracts a Dozen Teachers
The full-day workshop is designed to strengthen and expand teachers’ statistics backgrounds.
ASA’s First Survey of Master’s Graduates Provides Insight Into Job Market Demand, Degree Satisfaction
The ASA’s first follow-up survey of master’s graduates is complete. The results provide insights into starting salaries, hiring sectors and companies, most frequently used technical and nontechnical skills, and undergraduate training—all valuable information for current and prospective students, statistics and biostatistics departments, and new graduates.
ASA 2019 Statistics Poster and Project Awards Winners
The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 ASA Data Visualization Poster and Statistics Project Competition.
US Conference on Teaching Statistics: Evaluating Evidence at Penn State in May
United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) brings together teachers of statistics at all levels to exchange ideas and discover how to improve their teaching.
Amelia McNamara
Amelia McNamara went to design school during her first year in college but learned working with data allowed her to cultivate her broad interests. When she saw people struggling to understand histograms, she collaborated with Aran Lunzer to write an essay titled “What’s So Hard About Histograms?” This essay has become a popular, interactive, and educational tool.
Meeting Within a Meeting and Beyond AP Statistics at JSM 2019
MWM and BAPS offer enriching experiences for K-12 statistics teachers at JSM 2019 in Denver, Colorado.
Editors of Online Journal Statistics and Public Policy Seek Papers
The ASA journal Statistics and Public Policy publishes peer-reviewed articles describing research on outstanding, complex public policy issues.
Teaching Statistics Trust Lecture Recording Available Online
Christine Franklin, the ASA’s K–12 statistical ambassador, presented the 2018 Teaching Statistics Trust Lecture, titled “Statistical Problem Solving: The Art and Science of Learning and Teaching from Data,” in three locations in the United Kingdom in September of 2018.