On April 28, the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association celebrated Judith J. Lok, a Boston University professor, as the 2025 Mosteller Statistician of the Year for her pioneering contributions to causal inference and clinical trial design methodology.
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Practical Significance Take Two—Talking Data Science in Science with Founding Editor-in-Chief
The ASA recently added the open-access journal Data Science in Science to its portfolio of publications and Practical Significance co-hosts Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein interviewed the journal’s founding editor, David Matteson, during a recent podcast episode. If you missed it, you can tune in here.
Learn, Connect, Collaborate at CSP in the Big Easy
The 2024 Conference on Statistical Practice will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from February 27–29. The presentations, short courses, tutorials, and plenary presentations will provide an opportunity to learn about the latest statistical techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
Top 10 Things I Have Learned from ChatGPT
Michael Hansen has taught AP Statistics for 25 years and high-school computer science for about 13 years. This summer, he used ChatGPT to help him write a Python application of about 3,000 lines. Here are his top 10 takeaways from that experience.
People News for January 2022
See what ASA members have been up to lately in the January 2022 People News update.
Michael Jordan Selected as Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow
ASA member Michael Jordan was one of eight distinguished faculty scientists and engineers selected for the 2021 class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows, the US Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award.
Data Science Competition Attracts Talent from UGA
The first data science competition hosted by the department of statistics at the University of Georgia attracted 96 students, with 10 undergraduate teams and 16 graduate teams. Most teams had students from multiple disciplines, making the competition truly interdisciplinary.
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.
Lorin Crawford
While Lorin Crawford was writing his honors thesis on semigroup theory, he decided he no longer wanted to work on pure math problems but instead wanted to focus on more immediate real-world applications. Today, as RGSS Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University, his lab includes a mixture of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers in applied math, biostatistics, computational biology, and computer science. And even though his work earned him recognition as a member of The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2019, the most rewarding part of his job to him is having the unique opportunity to mentor people with such diverse skill sets, thought patterns, and social backgrounds.
Charlotte Baidoo
Charlotte Baidoo loved how statistics told a story from data when she was in high school and, while she was an undergraduate, a professor inspired her to pursue a career in biostatistics. It was an opportunity to combine her love of applied math with helping others. Now, she aids the development of medicines to transform patient’s lives. A child of Ghanaian immigrants, she is also passionate about inclusion and diversity and co-leads EMBRACE, GSK’s first multiethnicity-focused employee resource group.