ASA President Wendy Martinez shares her top 10 highlights from her term and says she ends this year with renewed appreciation of the ASA community.
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Government Statistics, Statistical Computing, Statistical Graphics Sections Congratulate Data Challenge Winners
The winners of the 2020 Data Challenge Expo are Lydia Carter and Phuong Ho. The theme for the 2021 Data Expo Challenge is “Helping Families, Business, and Communities Respond to COVID-19”
Significance Allows Statistics to Tell COVID-19 Story
Significance issued an open call for contributions, asking statisticians and data scientists “to help us explain the statistics of COVID-19.”
ASA DataFest 2020: A Virtual Experience
The 2020 DataFest was held as a virtual data challenge in which students worked in teams to explore an impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Highlights of the July 28–30, 2020, ASA Board of Directors Meeting
The ASA Board held their meeting in early August via videoconference. The highlights included discussion of the Constitution and Bylaws Review Task Force and 2021 ASA Budget.
Students Gain Collaboration Skills Through SFASA Summer Project
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter continued its K–12 student summer project program for the second year.
Papers Sought for SBR Special Issue
SBR is calling for papers focusing on clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments, vaccines, medical devices, and diagnostics.
Data for Good Tech: Cool Science for Hot Projects
One of the great aspects of data for good is that the technology never stands still. For some ideas and inspiration, David Corliss outlines a few examples of where Data for Good tech is leading the way.
HRDAG Answers Human Rights Questions on Large Scale
The Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) uses data science to answer questions about human rights on a large scale, from determining chain of command and accountability in international cases of genocide to evaluating whether artificial intelligence–based tools used by the US criminal justice system are fair.
Student Projects for the Greater Good—COVID-19 Edition
Columnist David Corliss shares his thoughts about Data for Good student projects in the year of COVID-19, including term papers, science fair entries, conference presentations and posters, and volunteer work for community organizations.