From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
We printed Bin Yu’s IMS Presidential Address in the October/November issue (in PDF format here). Bin reprised her talk at the New Researchers’ Conference, where it was filmed: you can watch the video here. The accompanying slides are at Bin’s website.…
Professor Shahjahan Khan is an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, and a member of IMS. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Statistical Society. He served as the President of ISOSS from 2005–2011. He reports on a statistics seminar at which he contributed:
The Bangladesh Academy of…
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), a nonprofit organization that fosters high-impact cross-disciplinary and cross-sector research involving statistical sciences, held a workshop for its affiliates and others on October 17 at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center in Washington, DC. More than 70 people attended the workshop, titled…
Xiao-Li Meng writes:
Perhaps because of my adventure a year ago officiating Yves and Victoria’s happy wedding (see December 2013 XL-Flies), I was invited back to the same church a year later to speak, for five minutes, at one of its Morning Prayers. Repeating my reaction to the Ig…
Hadley Wickham writes:
The best way to impact the world as a data scientist or statistician is to be useful. This column gives my advice on being useful:
• Write code
• Work in the open
• Teach
• Tell the world
(There are lots of other ways to be…