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Statisticians with Disabilities Offer Personal, Professional Insights
Statisticians share their lived experiences, professional contributions, and perspectives, emphasizing both the challenges they face and the unique insights they bring to the field.
Meet ASA New Members with Spotlight on Jiaxi Sun
Meet new ASA member Jiaxi Sun, whose ideal job is to be come a policy maker and quantitative researcher.
Staff Spotlight: Meet Chance Frye, Staff Accountant
Meet ASA staff accountant Chance Frye. When he’s not crunching numbers, he’s calling plays as a high school football offensive coordinator.
Obituary:Janet Cherry
Longtime ASA member Janet Cherry passed away August 17, 2024, from complications of a fall.
Julia Lane
As a labor economist, Julia Lane is driven by practical questions such as “What is the return on investment in on-the-job training?” Her interest in data and statistics led to innovative methods combining diverse data sources and addressing bias and measurement issues. Passionate about public good, she co-founded programs such as the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program, PatentsView, and the Coleridge Initiative. Her latest is a data search and discovery platform called Democratizing Data. Lane’s significant contributions extend to empowering women with remote access facilities and eliminating child care barriers. Among her achievements, she takes pride in her Nature article, “Women Are Credited Less in Science Than Men,” emphasizing the crucial role of statistics in understanding selection bias and highlighting implications for science policy.
Getting Started in Government, Agency, and Legislative Advocacy
Since 2024 is an election year, US state legislatures are focusing on goals the public will notice. Statistics and data will play a vital role in identifying those goals, delivering beneficial results, and measuring impact, so columnist David Corliss provides tips for getting started in advocacy.
Drake Gibson
Drake Gibson is a lifelong Prince George’s County, Maryland, resident who became passionate about data science after learning to program in R and Python in graduate school. While working at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he took on projects that enhanced his knowledge—his colleagues noticed and encouraged him to apply to be a data scientist.
COVID on the Cusp: Data for Good Research Expands as Pandemic Phase Ends
With the COVID-19 pandemic phase winding down, now is the time to act on what we have learned from this crisis—the Stats4Good top challenge in biostatistics for 2023.
My ASA Story: Mike Jadoo, Bureau of Labor Statistics Economist
Mike Jadoo, an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Office of Productivity and Technology, first learned about the American Statistical Association from a coworker who was going to the Joint Statistical Meetings.