This issue covers Google’s death-search data; a statistical look at the “beer mile”; and pieces on prison remand, mass shootings, kurtosis, and misleading data practices.
Chandra Erdman
Chandra Erdman started college at 15 and earned her first degree in mathematics by 20. Eventually, she become the first Black person to earn a PhD in statistics from Yale University.
Prescribing Privacy: Human and Computational Resource Limitations
Jingchen (Monika) Hu and Claire McKay Bowen look at how statisticians and data scientists can improve data privacy and confidentiality in our local—as well as federal—government and why they should.
Michael Hudgens and Rajan Patel Honored
Michael Hudgens was honored as the winner of the 2019 Kutner Alumni Award and Rajan Patel was honored as the winner of the 2021 Kutner Alumni Award.
People News for January 2022
See what ASA members have been up to lately in the January 2022 People News update.
@WomeninStat + Rotating Curators = Success
Hannah Mendoza and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan coordinate the @WomeninStat Twitter account and offer tips for curating and managing its rotation and engagement.
2021 SPAIG Award Honors Two Collaborations
The first award presented honors the collaboration between Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Duke University, International Drug Development Institute, and multiple other institutions representing academe, government, and industry that contributed to the Intermediate Clinical Endpoints of Prostate Cancer (ICECaP) initiative. The second recognizes the joint collaboration on the COVIDcast project between eight partners, spanning all three sectors and spearheaded by the Delphi research group at Carnegie Mellon University.
Saving Endangered Languages with AI and the Science of Communication
David Corliss tells us that using AI to save a threatened language from extinction can save the culture itself.
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.
Summary of JSM 2019 Session on Formal Privacy: Making an Impact at Large Organizations
The Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality organized a JSM session that featured four experts who have implemented formal privacy models or variants of differential privacy.