Noah Giansiracusa has been named the 2026 JPBM Communications Award recipient for his books, media work, and public engagement highlighting the societal impacts of algorithms.
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People News for October 2023
Read about recent noteworthy achievements by ASA members in this month’s People News.
Q&A with Rochelle Tractenberg
One of the world’s leading experts on the practice of ethics, statistician and Georgetown University professor Rochelle Tractenberg has written two books, Ethical Practice of Statistics and Data Science and Ethical Reasoning for a Data-Centered World. Here, she answers questions about the books and her motivation for writing them.
COC Members Reach Out with Books Despite COVID Snags
With all the judging and interaction with students for the 2021 International Science and Engineering Fair virtual, the ASA Council of Chapters had to overcome some challenges, like how to offer 100 students their choice of a book when they were located around the world and the books were in an office in Southern California.
Communicate Statistics, Engage Students with Personal Experiences
Jaya Satagopan uses agriculture data on corn yield, the motor trend car road tests data set, and the New York transportation fuels data from Kaggle to motivate students to learn about types of variables, statistical summaries, data visualization, and hypothesis testing.
More Than 100 Statistics Books Distributed at the 2017 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
Local ASA chapters presented the books to the students for their good use of statistics.
Send Books, Combat ‘Stataphobia’
Donate your little-used statistics books and lectures to the Research Methods Library of Alexandria (RMLA) in Egypt to improve statistical literacy in developing countries.
People News for February
News and information about members of the ASA highlighted in the February issue. For a complete listing of news and information about the members of the ASA, click here.
Representatives Available at 2010 Conferences
Representatives from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics will be available to discuss book projects at several conferences in the coming year.