Sound the Gong
Contributing Editor Ruobin Gong shared some pieces of advice on cutting a path through the data science jungle:
The winter months of an academic year may appear slow and dormant. But for a thriving discipline like statistics, that cannot be further from the truth. From November to February, many statistics…
Ruobin Gong, Rutgers University, responds to Chris Burdzy’s Presidential Address, delivered at the 2022 IMS meeting in London.
In his Presidential Address, Professor Chris Burdzy urged the IMS community to “stop using the term ‘subjective’ in reference to any part of statistics.” He further professed emotionally that “I love…
Winner of the 2021 COPSS Leadership Academy and author of Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven World, Claire McKay Bowen, Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute, talks with our contributing editor Ruobin Gong about data privacy, public policy research, and data science education.
RG: Claire, thank…
Ruobin Gong, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University, continues her “Sound The Gong” column with a reflection on what lessons we can, and should learn, from the experiences of teaching and learning online.
Prior to March 2020, taking classes towards a college or graduate degree remotely was anything but…
Ruobin Gong is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University. She joins us as a new Contributing Editor, starting her “Sound the Gong” column by reflecting on what we have learned from the past year of not being able to travel…
One of the most rewarding aspects of…