Kathy Ensor interviews Adrian Coles and David Marker about how the Anti-Racism Task Force met its goal of learning from the ASA’s members.
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Big Tent for Statistics and Data Science
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.
New Developments in Synthetic Data Generation: Privacy Day Webinar Summary
As the world grapples with how best to share confidential data, there is a rising interest in synthetic data methods, which are used to protect confidentiality of microdata units.
Infrastructure Series: Challenges Loom for Chief Statistician of the US
For this installment of the Count on Stats State of the Data Infrastructure Series, we hear from former Chief Statisticians of the United States Hermann Habermann, Katherine Wallman, and Nancy Potok.
Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Comes with $1M Award, Recognition
The King Baudouin Foundation—a large public utility foundation in Belgium—recently established the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, which comes with a $1 million award. Nominations will be accepted until March 31.
TAIG Competition Winners Describe Research
Tommy Jones and Yeseul Jeon were recently named winners of the 2021 Text Analysis Interest Group presentation competition for talks they gave at the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings.
Claire McKay Bowen Talks Data Privacy
Claire McKay Bowen, author of Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven World, talks about her book and ideas about data privacy in this interview.
My ASA Story: Richard Zink, Biostatistician and Podcaster
Zink is the co-host of ASA Biopharm’s Podcast and says volunteering has been good for his career and allowed him to help the next generation of statisticians and data scientists.
Many Honored During Virtual Conference
A special feature of the Joint Statistical Meetings is the ASA awards presentation. Here are some of this year’s awardees.
Katherine Thompson Appointed Statistics Editor of Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
The ASA and AAPOR welcome Katherine Thompson of the US Census Bureau as the next statistics editor for the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. Thompson will serve a three-year term.