The 12th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS 12) is taking place in Brisbane, Australia, July 12–17, 2026. Abstracts are currently being accepted.
Australia
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.
Dianne Cook
Dianne Cook was the center half on her small high-school field hockey team that beat all the larger high schools to become the state hockey champion. Sports—both watching sports and playing sports—exposed her to basic statistics. Where she really learned how to do data analysis, however, was at Iowa State University, where she, Hadley Wickham, and Heike Hofmann entered a data analysis competition—the first of many to come.
Conference on Health Statistics to Take Place in Fiji
Statisticians from the ASA, Statistical Society of Australia, and New Zealand Statistical Association—as well as local statistics communities from the Pacific Islands—will come together in Suva, Fiji, for the International Conference for Health Statistics in the Pacific Islands (ICHSPI-2011) on July 5.