Fernanda Araujo Maciel shares how her YouTube channel, podcast, and social media grew into a thriving Portuguese-language statistics community and urges fellow ASA members to help close the global gap in accessible statistical education.
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Amplify Our Voice: Become an ASA Social Media Ambassador
Join our new social media ambassador program and share ASA information across LinkedIn, BlueSky, Instagram, and Facebook to help increase connection among the statistical community.
Applications Sought for Science Policy Fellowship
During the ASA Science Policy Fellowship, the fellow spends 1–2 years in Washington, DC, working to elevate the profile of statistics in policymaking and advocating on behalf of the profession.
Equity and Bias in Algorithms: A Discussion of the Landscape and Techniques for Practitioners
Algorithmic bias can occur as a result of decisions made throughout the algorithm development and deployment process. Left unaddressed, it can deeply affect equity. Emily Hadley looks at techniques to consider when developing algorithms.
Significance Highlights: June Issue Looks at Using Social Media to Measure Subjective Well-Being
The issue also looks at Wordle, the gender breakdown of most Significance writers, college admissions during COVID-19, women and astronomers, and data-driven advertising.
@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.
Significance Covers COVID-19, Social Media, Rain-Predicting Tortoises
Can a pet tortoise predict when it’s about to rain? That’s the somewhat unusual question posed by Conner Jackson, winner of Significance magazine’s Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing. Jackson’s article, “Pietro the Weather Tortoise and the Pursuit of Soggy Bun Prevention,” leads the line-up of feature articles in the October 2021 issue.
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan
Lucy D’Agostino McGowan spent the beginning of her childhood in Boston, Massachusetts, and the rest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she lives today as a biostatistician, teacher, science communicator, podcaster, partner, mom, programmer, Disney enthusiast, and BB-8 builder. She fell in love with the statistics field after doing a Summer Institute in Biostatistics at Boston University. D’Agostino McGowan is also an avid statistical communicator. Her efforts in statistical communication span from op-eds about the current COVID-19 pandemic; a podcast in partnership with the American Journal of Epidemiology, Casual Inference; and outreach via social media. Her research focuses on causal inference, human-data interaction, and statistical communication. She is currently the chair of the ASA Committee on Women in Statistics and co-leads an effort with past-chair Stephanie Hicks to build community and engagement. Follow their Twitter feed at @WomeninStat.
Social Media Resources for Data for Good Projects
In this, the first of a two-part series, David Corliss looks at how social media channels can play an important supporting role in Data for Good projects.
‘Making an Impact’ in 25 Years
In her column this month, Karen Kafadar looks at what statistics will be 25 years from now based on what Leo Breiman predicted 25 years ago.