The award will recognize the transfer or extension of statistical methods developed for or used in one field of application into another where it has never or seldom been used.
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ASA GivesBack: Stories from the Fields
The six GivesBack members recently held a panel discussion in which they talked about ways their jobs are engaged in giving back to public health, society, and drug development.
Undergraduate Statistics Degrees Up 474% Since 2010
The increase in the number of universities granting statistics and biostatistics degrees also continues steadily.
Data Science and Statistics Influencing Science, Technology, and Society
Claire Bowen, SDSS 2022 program chair, says the changes to society made by the COVID-19 pandemic inspired her to select the theme “Influencing Science, Technology, and Society” for the symposium.
2020 Bachelor’s Degree Recipients in Statistics Show Resilience
This spring’s respondents to the ASA survey of 2020 bachelor’s graduates reported a challenging, stressful, and prolonged job search, although the results also show an unemployment rate roughly the same as the rate for the 2016 and 2017 respondents, higher median salaries, and hiring by a variety of companies.
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.
Significance Launches Data Economy Series with April Issue
The April issue of Significancebegins a new four-part series that tells the story of the “data economy,” starting with the birth of customer insight.
Using Our Superpowers to Contribute to the Public Good
Rob Santos believes statisticians are superheroes, but their superpowers are only as good as their underlying assumptions.
Simina Boca
Simina Boca grew up in Bucharest, Romania, and participated in many math contests as a kid. Her best result was fourth place nationally in the ninth grade, but she was pretty sure she didn’t want to focus on pure math as a career. When she attended a genetics class her senior year in high school in the United States, she discovered biostatistics and majored in math at the University of Illinois. Along the way, she realized she enjoyed working with data and thinking about data. From a professional perspective, her proudest moment was convincing collaborators to rerun an experiment because the initial one had pronounced batch effects that could not be fixed at the analysis stage.
Hiring a Data Scientist
Mikail Popov of the Wikimedia Foundation needed to backfill a data analyst position. He shares what the foundation learned and how they drew on existing resources to synthesize a better approach to interviewing and hiring a new member of their team.