Category: News
Resources Roundup: Warm Up Inspiration for Statsketball 2020
March 09, 2020
Statsketball is back for its fourth year, with two unique challenges to put your statistics skills to the test in predicting the NCAA Basketball Tournament champions. Whether you’re a player yourself or have never set foot on a basketball court, with statistics you could make winning predictions. Leading up to the March 15 and March...
Statsketball Returns: Submissions for the Annual Sports Analytics Contest Opens March 15
March 02, 2020
Statsketball, our rapidly growing annual contest to apply statistics to the NCAA Basketball Tournament, is back! Is your head in the game? Statsketball challenges high school and undergraduate students to predict the outcome of the 2020 NCAA Basketball Tournaments, using statistics rather than luck. The contest features two challenges: The “Pick ‘Em”: Upset Challenge allows students to use statistical methodology...
2020: A New Decade of Opportunity for Statisticians
January 07, 2020
U.S. News & World Report’s annual jobs ranking list shows statistics continues to offer great careers with above-average salaries, broad applications, and low unemployment. Statistician ranked as the #1 Best Business Job, and #6 among the top 100 Best Jobs across all categories! It also ranked #6 among the Best STEM Jobs If you’ve followed...
Statistics in 2019: Our Top Highlights of the Year
December 19, 2019
It’s been another great year for statistics! Careers in statistics, the science of using data to make decisions, are still among the fastest-growing and top-paying jobs in the country. As data availability increases, there is a greater need for experts to interpret what it means—statisticians are in high demand in any sector, all over the...
Fall Data Challenge 2019: Congratulations to our Winners!
November 21, 2019
In this year’s Fall Data Challenge, 55 teams submitted their recommendations on how to help solve homelessness in Los Angeles, Seattle or New York City using the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2018 Point-in-Time Estimate of Homelessness in the U.S. dataset. According to HUD, an average of 553,000 people in America experienced homelessness on...
How Statisticians Are Fighting to Cure Cancer
October 17, 2019
Statisticians make important contributions to many fields, and one where they make a huge impact is in cancer research. We asked Dr. Sujata Patil, Associate Attending Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Ruth Pfeiffer, Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, about their research, the impact their work has and why they choose...
Announcing the Fall Data Challenge: Help Solve Homelessness
September 30, 2019
The Fall Data Challenge is back! This year, teams of two to five students will dive deep into datasets available from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and identify areas to reduce and resolve the homelessness crisis. This challenge focuses on the three cities with the highest populations of people experiencing homelessness in the...
Fall Data Challenge: Resources Roundup, Stats to Fight Homelessness
September 26, 2019
This year’s Fall Data Challenge theme is “Help Solve Homelessness,” so now it’s time to dig into the details of this important and complicated issue. On an average night in 2018, 553,000 people in the US experienced homelessness—an increase over 2017. Great minds all over the country are dedicating their work to help those experiencing...
Fall Data Challenge: Meet the Judges
September 19, 2019
This is Statistics’ third annual Fall Data Challenge will focus on the topic “Help Solve Homelessness,” putting students’ analytical and data visualization skills to the test to help address the homelessness crisis in America. With the contest launch quickly approaching, allow us to introduce the real-life statisticians who apply their professional skills to address the...
Fall Data Challenge: Revealing the 2019 Theme
September 17, 2019
The 2019 Fall Data Challenge is almost here! Students, are you ready for this year’s contest? For the third year running, the Fall Data Challenge will offer high school and undergraduate students the opportunity to explore a timely real-world issue that uses statistics to touch individuals’ lives and drive social impact. This year’s theme will focus on...