Statistician Jen Van Mullekom Plays an Important Role at Dupont
December 8, 2014
Jen Van Mullekom is a statistician at DuPont where she helps the science company make informed decisions for a variety of problems and scenarios. Jen calls herself an “accidental statistician” because she set out to...
Wall Street Journal Reports on CIO’s Growing Demand for Data Scientists
December 2, 2014
Companies need data scientists, and a lot of them, writes Clint Boulton in a recent article for the Wall Street Journal. Chief information officers are having a hard time finding enough candidates with the right...
Three Professors Explain How Statistical Science is More Than Numbers
October 23, 2014
Terry Speed, professor of bioinformatics at U.C. Berkeley, makes a strong case along with two other professors about why students should learn statistics. Speed points out that statistical science is applied to just about every...
Wall Street Journal: Statisticians Lured to High-Tech Jobs Offering Good Salaries and Interesting Work
September 5, 2014
Statisticians, also known as data scientists, are highly sought after by everyone from banks to retailers to app developers, reports Elizabeth Dwoskin of the Wall Street Journal. In fact, their skills are so rare that...
It’s Never Too Early to Study Statistics
August 22, 2014
We’re living in an age in which data has become more available and more important to industry and society, yet our ability as a population to analyze data is not keeping up, writes Jonathan Wai,...