A mid-year update on the health of federal statistics, data science certification, and upcoming events.
opportunities
Events and Opportunities
New professional development opportunities, upcoming conferences, and opportunities to share your story with the ASA community.
ASA Student Programs Create D4G Experiences, Opportunities
With the start of a new school year, Stats4Good takes a look at some of the ways the ASA empowers students to act for the greater good.
As the Statistics Profession Grows, So Does the ASA
ASA President Kathy Ensor sees three areas of immediate opportunity for the ASA: leadership, keeping vibrant data science and AI activities moving forward, and sustainability and community analytics. Here, she speaks briefly to each of these.
What a Year It Has Been!
ASA President Wendy Martinez shares her top 10 highlights from her term and says she ends this year with renewed appreciation of the ASA community.
To Get a PhD or Not to Get a PhD? Part 2
The ASA Committee on Applied Statisticians gives you the experiences of four statisticians who took different paths after their master’s degrees. This month, Mark Otto discusses the path he took after earning his master’s degree.
Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges for Online Seminars and Conferences
The spread of COVID-19 has slowed economies and stopped travel throughout the world. For academics, classes and research collaborations have moved online. But the pandemic has disrupted two other essential aspects of academic life: conferences and seminars. An obvious solution is to move conferences and seminars online, but this has proven challenging for a number of reasons.
NSF Shares Spring 2020 Student Training Resources
A listing of training resources for graduates, undergraduates, and postdocs related to social and behavioral science shared by the National Science Foundation
Annual Report for the Washington Statistical Society
An active chapter, WSS offers opportunities for statisticians and data scientists to learn, socialize, and serve.
Funding Opportunities Group Enters Second Year
The Funding Opportunities Group entered its second year this spring, having grown to 130 members.