Tag: Data Scientist
Congratulations, 2020 Stats Grads!
May 21, 2020
Congratulations to all the 2020 high school and college graduates! Although you are most likely to celebrate this special moment virtually instead of in an auditorium with your classmates, family, and friends, don’t forget to take the time to acknowledge your hard work and celebrate this amazing milestone in your life. Despite the unusual circumstances you graduate in amid the pandemic, an...
Chen Teel: Statistics for Personalized Gaming at Electronic Arts
July 25, 2019
Chen Teel: Statistics for Personalized Gaming at Electronic Arts When we say that statistics is used even in the most unlikely places and across every industry — we really mean everywhere. Chen Teel is senior manager of data science at Electronic Arts, the video game company that created “Battlefield,” “The Sims,” “Need for Speed,” and...
Ming Li: Turning Big Data into Action at Amazon
May 30, 2019
Amazon continues to innovate and become more efficient in its customer service, packaging and overall business. And statisticians are helping to do it! Ming Li, a research scientist at Amazon, uses data and statistics to help the company answer questions and make important business decisions. We talked with Ming about his journey in statistics and...
Preparing for Your First Statistics Job Interview? We’re Here to Help.
May 21, 2019
You spent long, sleepless nights studying for exams, reading textbooks cover to cover and finally earning your statistics degree – congratulations, you graduated! Now, it’s time to start the job hunt and nail your interviews. Wherever your search starts, This is Statistics is here to help. While it’s impossible to know exactly what will transpire during your interviews with prospective employers,...
Congratulations, Graduates!
May 15, 2019
Congratulations to all the 2019 high school and college graduates this season! The career opportunities for statisticians are steadily growing, projected to increase 31 percent over the next ten years according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Even better, the field is frequently recognized as one of the very best careers for opportunity, salary...
Kelsey Warsinske: Why Statistics is the ‘Sexy Major’
April 04, 2019
Statisticians are passionate about what they do, and for Kelsey Warsinske, a data scientist at a Silicon Valley tech company, she’s always been encouraged to learn about statistics. Very early on, Kelsey was encouraged to of its applicability to many fields and companies, high pay and interesting day-to-day projects. We sat down with Kelsey to...
Statistician: A 2019 Top Job in America
January 24, 2019
Looking for a career path that has potential for growth, pays well, is low stress and offers a healthy work-life balance? Statistician ranked the best business job, period, and the second best job in America by U.S. News & World Report in 2019. UPDATE, April 2019: USA TODAY named “statistician” as the #5 top job in...
Public Health Data Challenge: Meet the Judges
November 01, 2018
ASA’s Public Health Data Challenge asks students to use their analytical and data visualization skills to create ideas that could help take steps toward resolving or reducing the national opioid crisis. As we inch closer to the November 12 submission deadline, we’d like to introduce the contest judges. Using the criteria described here, these public health...
Statistics Behind Fantasy Football: Prediction, Probability, and Pigskin
September 27, 2018
Since its inception in 1962, fantasy football has given both fans of America’s most popular sport, as well as statistics enthusiasts, the ability to manage a virtual NFL team while competing against friends, family or perfect strangers to see who will triumph. At the start of the NFL season, fantasy football leagues host online drafts where participants select players to create...
Video: Statistics is For Everyone
March 29, 2018
Statisticians work across a range of diverse fields, including human rights advocacy, healthcare and journalism. And, as a Rochester Institute of Technology student Cho Yau says in our latest video: “Smart is the new sexy.” In this video, you’ll hear about the important role statistics plays in our lives from Cho and other professionals, including:...