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Daniela Witten has had a superb, if not entirely spontaneous, sabbatical experience. She explains:
Two years ago, I visited a dear friend who had recently, and with very little planning, uprooted her life in New York City—home, job, decades of friendships—to move with her husband and three young boys to…
Daniela Witten is frustrated with (some of) her students “outsourcing their brains to LLMs”:
For decades, the university classroom was as if frozen in time: blackboards became whiteboards and transparencies transformed to Beamer*, but that was about it. But early 2020 brought with it a series of…
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten concludes her two-part column about her experience as a journal editor. Part 1 (which you can read here) in the August 2025 issue, contains her thoughts about editors, associate editors (AEs), and reviewers. In this part, Daniela focuses on advice to authors.
Sometimes …
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten shares her thoughts on the editorial process, and some advice for associate editors and reviewers, written from the perspective of an editor and a human:
I submitted my first paper to Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (JRSSB) as a grad student.…
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten teams up with Rob Tibshirani:
This column is about the fact that statistics is hard. Of course, statistics is hard for non-statisticians: anyone who has ever taught a non-major stat class knows this to be true! But this column is about the fact that…