Four main themes for the section’s webinars this year emerged: career advice; reproducibility; interpretability; and methods in data science.
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Pathways to Promotion Committee Offers Collaborative Statisticians Advice
The Pathways to Promotion committee held a free webinar, titled “Advice for the Promotion of Collaborative Statisticians in Research and Teaching Institutions,” in May. More than 130 people attended.
ASA Celebrates Pride Month While Urging Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
In collaboration with members of the LGTBQ Inclusion and Diversity Working Group and LGBTQ+ Advocacy Committee, the ASA will celebrate Pride Month while working to endow the new ASA Pride Scholarship. The celebration will kick off with a book reading by award-winning author Nicole Dennis Benn on June 10 at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Text Analysis Interest Group Recaps First Full Year
The ASA’s Text Analysis Interest Group (TAIG) has had a productive first full year. TAIG brings together individuals and groups who have an active interest in text analysis, text mining, natural language processing, and related areas of research at their intersection with statistics.
Webinar: Privacy Risk and Preservation
Countries and regions around the world have developed and deployed COVID-19 contact tracing software or mobile apps. While contact tracing plays an important role in the pandemic, red flags have been raised regarding the privacy risk associated with the contact tracing apps and software. Tune in to this webinar hosted by ASA Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality as Fang Liu discusses the effectiveness of privacy-preserving measures.
NC ASA Continues Webinar Series on Statistics and Data Science
The North Carolina Chapter webinar series, launched in 2019, continues this year and features topics on Bayesian statistics, data science, and machine learning.
ASA, SciLine Team Up on Media Fact Sheet
The ASA recently teamed up with SciLine to create a fact sheet on polling that would be accessible to a wide audience. They also created an online media briefing on polling, which is archived for general access on SciLine’s website.
Survey Research Methods Section to Host Webinar on Respondent-Driven Sampling
Learn more about respondent-driven sampling (RDS) in a webinar this September. RDS is a link-tracing network sampling method used to sample hard-to-reach human populations.
Privacy Day Webinar 2020: A Summary
On January 28, a webinar sponsored by the ASA Privacy and Confidentiality Committee was presented by Michael Hawes, senior adviser for the Data Access and Privacy, Research, and Methodology Directorate of the US Census Bureau, titled “Differential Privacy and the 2020 Decennial Census.”
Registration Open for Virtual Workshops on World of Blended Data
Each virtual workshop consists of a one-hour webinar followed by virtual group discussion and possible set of activities using data and code provided by the presenter.