When Rachel Schutt was five years old, her father realized her primary school was directing the girls to practice knitting while the boys solved math problems. He intervened and came to the class to teach the girls set theory. Her interest in math persisted and she went on to become one of the first chief data scientists of a Fortune 500 company.
Gelman
Why Statistics? Why BLOG?
Short for weblog, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary describes a blog as a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and hyperlinks provided by the writer. Recently, there has been an outcropping of blogs about statistics, so Amstat News asked a few statistical bloggers how they got started in both statistics and blogging. Read their answers here.
