Tag: Statistician

Women a Growing Force in Statistics and Data Science, Reports Washington Post

Unlike many science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the field of statistical science attracts a relatively large share of women, even in leadership positions, Washington Post’s Brigid Schulte recently reported in “Women Flocking to Statistics.” “More than 40 percent of degrees in statistics go to women, and they make up 40 percent of the statistics...

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Statistician Jen Van Mullekom Plays an Important Role at Dupont

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 become a math teacher when she started her undergraduate studies. But upon taking a statistics class, she was amazed at...

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Three Professors Explain How Statistical Science is More Than Numbers

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 sector—from agriculture and healthcare to manufacturing and technology. “It seems evident that statistics pervades every field of human endeavor, either...

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Wall Street Journal: Statisticians Lured to High-Tech Jobs Offering Good Salaries and Interesting Work

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 many in the high-tech sector have dubbed them “Unicorns,” she writes. She quotes a data consultant from Booz Allen Hamilton...

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It’s Never Too Early to Study Statistics

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, a researcher at Case Western Reserve University. He quotes a vice president at Facebook, Elliot Schrage, who said statistics will...

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“Statistician” Again Listed Among Top Jobs

CareerCast.com has once again listed “statistician” as one of the top jobs in 2014 in the U.S., coming in at #3 in its “Jobs Rated Report.” (“Mathematician” was rated #1, followed by “University Professor (Tenured).” The Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the CareerCast.Com jobs report highlights the demand for people with quantitative skills, noting “It’s no secret that...

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