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Mathematics & Statistics Awareness Month: Meet a Statistician Series Roundup
May 08, 2020
Statistics is one of the fastest-growing career fields, and opens doors to a wide range of opportunities. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, statistics has projected growth rate of 31 percent between 2018 and 2028. This is Statistics celebrated Mathematics and Awareness Month (MASAM) by highlighting work of expert statisticians in a variety of...
Meet a Statistician: This Week’s Facebook Live Host is Glen Wright Colopy
April 29, 2020
It’s the final week of April, which means Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month (MASAM) is coming to an end. While we celebrate statisticians every day, this month featured a special weekly Facebook Live Q&A spotlighting real statisticians. Over the course of the month, statisticians from around the country in a wide variety of jobs chatted...
SXSW EDU Goes Virtual: The Superpower Every Student Needs
April 27, 2020
What’s the superpower every student needs? Statistics, of course. This Wednesday, April 29, two experts will present on this important topic as part of SXSW EDU’s virtual roundup to replace this year’s cancelled event. View the recorded presentation here In this online session, Dr. Samuel Echevarria-Cruz, Dean of Liberal Arts, Social and Behavioral Sciences at Austin...
Meet a Statistician: This Week’s Facebook Live Host is Claire McKay Bowen
April 22, 2020
Throughout the month of April, we’ve been celebrating Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month (MASAM) with a weekly Facebook Live Q&A spotlighting real statisticians. So far, our chats have featured quantitative sociologist Dr. Sam Echevarria, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau Rob Santos, and retired professor and K-12 statistics ambassador Chris Franklin. Statisticians work in any...
Meet a Statistician: This Week’s Facebook Live Host is Chris Franklin
April 15, 2020
We’re in the third week of our weekly Q&A that celebrates Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month (MASAM). Each week, we spotlight real statisticians in a wide range of fields for teachers and students to enhance the digital classroom. The famous statistician John Tukey once said, “The best thing about being a statistician is you get...
Meet a Statistician: This Week’s Facebook Live Guest is Rob Santos
April 08, 2020
April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month (MASAM), and This is Statistics is featuring a weekly Q&A for teachers and students to enhance the digital classroom. We kicked off our Meet a Statistician series spotlighting real statisticians in a wide range of fields. On Thursday, April 8 2020 at 2pm ET we held a live Twitter interview...
Mathematics & Statistics Awareness Month: Meet a Statistician Series
April 01, 2020
It’s Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month (MASAM), and This is Statistics is celebrating all month long with a Facebook Live series spotlighting real statisticians in a wide range of fields—the perfect addition to your digital classroom! Join us every Thursday through April at 2pm ET for a live session with a real statistician! Learn how...
Jeremy Gu: Data Science from the Tech Industry to the World of Fashion
March 26, 2020
When you think of the biggest companies in the U.S. and the world that are built on data, what do you think of? Amazon? Uber? Stitch Fix? Data scientist Jeremy Gu has experience at all three, using data to advance their offerings and make strategic business decisions. After Jeremy graduated from the University of Minnesota,...
Florence Nightingale: The Lady with the Data
March 15, 2020
The lady with the lamp was also the lady who conducted pioneering and brave work as a statistician during a time when women were a rare presence in such fields. Florence Nightingale, one of the most prominent statisticians in history, used her passion for statistics to save lives of soldiers during the Crimean war, and do...
Statsketball 2020: Meet the Judges
March 12, 2020
The fourth annual Statsketball Tournament, our popular contest for high school and undergraduate students nationwide to use statistics to predict the outcomes of the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments, returns. Submissions open following the Selection Shows this Sunday and Monday, and close at 12 p.m. ET on Thursday, March 19–so now is the time to strategize...