This month, ASA President Lisa LaVange writes about #LeadWithStatistics and her presidential initiative to establish a leadership institute at the ASA. This institute would provide resources and opportunities to help members develop leadership skills as they progress through all career stages.
Bob Rodriguez
Preparing Master’s Statistics Students for Success: A Perspective from Recent Graduates and Employers
The ASA Workgroup on Master’s Degrees submitted its report to the ASA Board of Directors in November. This committee was charged with developing guidelines, framed as learning outcomes, for master’s degree programs in statistics and biostatistics that are responsive to the needs of stakeholders who employ such graduates. This is what the workgroup learned.
Big Data and Better Data
Bob Rodriguez talks “big data” in the June President’s Corner column.
President-elect Bob Rodriguez Visits Pittsburgh Chapter
Bob Rodriguez, the ASA president-elect and a senior director of R&D at SAS Institute, visited the department of biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh on September 29, 2011. As an invited speaker in the Biostatistical Seminar Series, Rodriguez gave a presentation titled “Business Analytics: Buzzword or Bonanza for the Statistics Profession?” to an audience of about 100 local statisticians and students.