Understanding data allows people to make scientifically sound decisions. This is especially relevant for developing countries. Here Eric Vance and Kim Love show how they help local researchers, businesses and policy-makers from developing countries help make scientifically sound decisions.

The Caucus for Women in Statistics and Portuguese Statistical Association will host the International Day for Women in Statistics and Data Science October 11.

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.

Rochelle Tractenberg shows that when practitioners do not follow ethical practice standards, all those who make decisions based on the results of quantitative practice may find their decisions or scholarly work undermined.

Shipp is the interim director and a professor at the Social and Decision Analytics Division within the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia. Working with Sallie Keller, the founding director, she built and developed the division for “democratizing” data science to serve the public good.

The July 2022 issue of JSDE includes nine articles and an interview with Robert delMas, this year’s recipient of the George Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award from CAUSE.

Dozens of two-year colleges have started data science and analytics programs, with many offering degrees or certificates. Learn about the County College of Morris, Wake Tech, Montgomery College, and College of DuPage here.

ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein says, “We applaud the decision by the DHS to include data science in its program degree list for STEM fields. With its foundational components of statistics, computing, database management, and math, data science rightfully belongs on this list. We thank members of the academic and data science communities who also urged its inclusion.”

ASA promised to be the “Big Tent for Statistics and Data Science,” and ASA President Kathy Ensor shares the work the association is doing to fulfill this promise and extend its leadership by highlighting three important initiatives.

In honor of Women’s History Month, we are once again celebrating ASA women who work in statistics and data science. These accomplished women were chosen because they are leaders, mentors, and influencers. Read their stories to find out why they chose statistics, who influenced them, and what they have accomplished.