Calling All Students: Are You Ready for the 2018 Statsketball Tournament?
March 1, 2018
The countdown for the 2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament starts now, and it’s up to you to use statistics – the science of learning from data – to determine who will win in the 2018 Statsketball Tournament!
If you’re a sports and stats fan, put your statistical theories and models to the test with two challenges:
Enter by March 14 for your chance to win prizes and take a deep dive into what it takes to be a Statistician, among top jobs in 2018.
Stay tuned for more updates from us to guide you along the way.
The ball is in your court!
Related Posts
Educators Share How They Utilize Contests in the Classroom
Each year, This is Statistics hosts student contests during both the spring and fall semesters. We receive hundreds of submissions from creative and statistically minded students across the globe for each! But these students aren’t working in isolation. Behind most submissions, there is an educator encouraging students and utilizing the contests in lesson plans, as…
Breaking News: #DataViz Headline Challenge—Congratulations to our Winners!
This spring, The New York Times Learning Network’s “What’s Going on in This Graph?” and the American Statistical Association teamed up for the This is Statistics 2022 Spring Contest. For this year’s Breaking News: #DataViz Headline Challenge, students showcased their statistical literacy and journalism skills by submitting clear and compelling headlines for The New York Times graphs in four weekly challenges…