Michelle Dunn fell in love with statistics on her way to freshman year at Harvard, after studying for a quantitative reasoning test. Now, she is CTO and co-founder of Data Collaboratory, a technology company that builds data science tools—and a company she built from the ground up. Michelle’s goal is to continue to put into action what she has learned about leadership from her hero, statistician and hiring manager Brenda Edwards.
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Summertime and the Living Is …
It’s August, but despite what Nat King Cole may have thought, the days are hardly lazy for the statistics profession.
FY17 Federal Budget Resolved; Trump’s FY18 Budget Request Released
Steve Pierson, ASA director of science policy, breaks down the government’s FY17 final budget and reviews the FY18 requested budgets for federal statistical agencies.
NIH-Funded Short Course Planned on Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research
The University of Alabama will host an NIH-funded short course, titled “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research,” at the University of Alabama at Birmingham July 24–28.
Samuel W. Greenhouse
Samuel W. Greenhouse was one of the founding statisticians at the National Institutes of Health, helped pioneer the use of statistical methods in epidemiological research, and was influential in the early development of the theory and practice of clinical trials.
Department Chairs Gather at ASA to Discuss Pressing Education Issues
More than 40 department chairs from more than 25 states attended an ASA-hosted workshop that featured themes on workforce demands and needs, data science education and research, mentoring and junior faculty, and federal funding.
Highlights of the April 2016 ASA Board of Directors Meeting
Highlights from the board’s first meeting of the year, including discussion items, action items, and reported items.
ASA Leaders Reminisce: Jonas Ellenberg
In the 18th installment of the Amstat News series of interviews with ASA presidents and executive directors, we feature a discussion with 1999 ASA President Jonas Ellenberg.
FY17 Requests for NIH, NSF, Federal Statistical Agencies Largely Positive
President Barack Obama’s requested budget for Fiscal Year 2017 maintains his record of proposing generally healthy increases for the NIH, NSF, and many federal statistical agencies, but realizing increases of any amount will be challenging.
Final FY16 Spending Bill Provides Increases for NIH, Census, Statistical Agencies
Steve Pierson, ASA Director of Science Policy, breaks down the Fiscal Year 2016 omnibus spending bill signed into law in December, which included needed increases for the National Institutes of Health and many federal statistical agencies.