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September 30, 2023
The 2023 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS) takes place December 18–21, 2023, in Lisbon, Portugal. Program co-chairs Regina Liu and Annie Qu report on the latest developments:
Applications for the ICSDS Junior Researcher Travel Fund
To ensure inclusivity and accessibility of ICSDS to junior researchers all…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu writes:
If there is a time to let one’s hair down and unclench the fists, it must be summer, that singular season when the only issue one must tiptoe around is the hot sand on a sun-drenched beach. But there must be a Law of Conservation…
Contributing Editor Layla Parast is aiming for excellence…by being medium-good:
A few years ago, Netflix recommended to me a documentary called “Fittest on Earth: A Decade of Fitness,” which was about the 2017 CrossFit Games. I knew what CrossFit was—it involved running around carrying balls and kettlebells and lots of…
On behalf of the organizers of the biennial million-dollar Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, which was first awarded in 2022, Mia Hubert and Stefan Van Aelst write:
Statistics is a cornerstone of science, health, industry, economics, government and more, and benefits society as a whole. The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awards…
Contributing Editor David Hand has been re-reading John Tukey’s “The Future of Data Analysis”:
Most readers will be familiar with the name John Tukey. He is renowned for developing the Fast Fourier Transform and the box plot, and for coining the term “bit” as used in computer science as well…