Jacquelyn Ganskopp recently joined the finance team at the American Statistical Association.
West Virginia
Using Data Science in the COVID-19 Pandemic in West Virginia
As one of the team members charged with working with data during the COVID-19 pandemic in West Virginia, Brad Price noticed there was one overall theme: Communicate and share the necessary information to keep the 1.79 million residents, health care facilities, and economy of West Virginia protected. This wasn’t as easy as it might sound.
A Story of COVID-19, Mentoring, and West Virginia
Learn about how data scientists have helped with different aspects of the COVID-19 response in West Virginia and how one key mentor played a role in this.
Alyson G. Wilson
Alyson G. Wilson’s interest in statistics grew out of a summer internship in the clinical statistics department of Burroughs Wellcome, a pharmaceutical company in North Carolina. This was the first time she understood how math could be applied to real-world problems. Today, she is a professor in the department of statistics and associate vice chancellor for national security and special research initiatives, and her work has contributed to improving the use of data and quantitative methods in defense.