ASA promised to be the “Big Tent for Statistics and Data Science,” and ASA President Kathy Ensor shares the work the association is doing to fulfill this promise and extend its leadership by highlighting three important initiatives.
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ASA Joins Two Largest Societies for Computing as CSAB Member
The American Statistical Association is now a full member of CSAB, joining the world’s two largest professional and technical societies for computing: the Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE Computer Society.
Foundations of Data Science Conference Scheduled for October
The conference will address foundational data science challenges in prediction, inference, fairness, ethics, and the future of data science.
ASA Joins IEEE, ACM for Data Science, Advanced Analytics Conference
In recognition of statistics being one of three foundational areas of data science, the ASA is cosponsoring the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA’2016) October 17–19, 2016, in Montréal.