Sunghee Lee, Claire McKay Bowen, and Amanda Coston discussed racial bias, privacy concerns, and the fairness or unfairness of predictive algorithms at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings.
Diversity
StatFest Slated for NC with Keynote Address from Netflix’s Ché Smith
StatFest is a free, one-day conference designed to encourage undergraduate students of color to pursue graduate studies and careers in statistics and data science.
JEDI Corner: Student Travel Funding Needed to Improve Access to Profession
For students with marginalized identities, a conference may be the first place they encounter other statisticians with similar identities, which could contribute to a sense of belonging in the field. However, equitable accessibility to conferences is not always available for these students.
Hallmark Diversity Workshop and Mentoring Program Returns to JSM
The program brings together historically underrepresented minority statisticians/data scientists at early- to mid-career levels with senior-level statisticians/data scientists and features one-on-one mentoring and professional development.
JEDI Corner: Biostatistics Program Gives Students Real-World Experience
The Collaborative Undergraduate Biostatistics Experience (CUBE) is gearing up for its second year at Virginia Tech this summer. CUBE exposes undergraduate STEM students, specifically those who are part of an underrepresented/minority population, to the data science and collaborative biostatistics fields.
JEDI Corner: Suggestions for Combining Secondary Data Analysis and Community-Based Research
Traditional approaches to secondary data analysis do not involve the people most affected by the analysis, which can create distance between statisticians or data scientists and the communities behind it. By connecting secondary data analysis with community-based research, we can decrease this distance.
Nominations Open for Annie T. Randall Innovator Award
The award honors path-breaking Black female statistician Annie T. Randall for her pioneering career in government amid pervasive racial discrimination.
ASA Pride Scholarship Nominations Open
The ASA Pride Scholarship was established to raise awareness for and support the success of LGBTQ+ statisticians and data scientists and allies.
Embracing JEDI Is Embracing the Intellect of All
Dionne Price discusses the work the Anti-Racism Task Force is doing with the Nova Collective to move the ASA forward in its diversity, equity, and inclusion work.
JEDI Corner: From Visualization to ‘Sensification’
Data visualization and exploratory data analysis have been recognized in recent decades as important parts of statistics, but visualization excludes people with visual impairments, an increasingly important issue as the population gets older. How can statisticians and analysts provide some of the benefits of the dataviz revolution?