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NISS-Merck Meet-ups On a Roll!

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A meet-up is an online get together of people who have a common interest.  NISS and Merck have found a large audience and many topics that have interested quite a few! To date there have been four meet-ups averaging nearly 300 attendees calling in per event! The format is usually a... more

STATFest 2018 a Success!

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On September 22, Amherst College hosted the national STATFest conference that encourages underrepresented students to pursue statistics and data science careers. STATFest is an ongoing initiative by the American Statistical Association through its Committee on Minorities in Statistics and is held... more

Popular R & Spark Short Course held at SAMSI Offices

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An R & Spark short course took place in the SAMSI offices on September 21-22, 2018.  The workshop was well attended and very timely in terms of content, and everything went smoothly as planned!  The participants (mostly graduate students from the local universities in Research... more

NISS Sponsored JSM Session on Big Data – Standing Room Only!

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Session Chair and Organizer, Lingzhou Xue, NISS Assistant Director, opened the NISS Sponsored session entitled, “Big Data Statistical Challenges and Opportunities in Industry” by welcoming speakers and attendees.  The session certainly generated much interest.  Attendees stood in the back... more

NISS – SAMSI – MBI Reception at JSM

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The annual NISS reception established a new beginning.  Although held a few blocks from the convention center, and on a Monday night when there were many other receptions, these were not deterrents for conference participants to attend the combined NISS – SAMSI – MBI Reception in Vancouver.... more

NISS Affiliate Luncheon at JSM

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Panel Speakers: How is Data Science Organized? Each year at JSM the NISS Affiliates gather for facilitated discussion and conversation over lunch and a chance to meet new colleagues, talk and catch up.  This year’s luncheon was very well attended.  The general topic of the luncheon was... more

Academic Affiliate Meet-Ups Planned

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The first meet up for academic affiliates has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 10th, 2018  from 12 – 1 pm ET.   This is a first in a series of virtual meet-ups for the NISS Academic Affiliates and this time the target audience is graduate students.  The focus of this... more

G. Jogesh Babu, 2018 Jerome Sacks Award Recipient

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The Jerome Sacks Award is given for statistical leadership in cross-disciplinary research. G. Jogesh Babu is this year’s award recipient. “His vision and effort in building the field of astrostatistics is outstanding!”  Mary Batcher, Chair, NISS Board of Trustees Mary presented... more

Schonlau Receives NISS 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award

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At the NISS – SAMSI – MBI reception that was held during JSM Jim Rosenberger, Director of NISS, presented the NISS Distinguished Alumni Award to Matthias Schonlau, Professor of Statistics at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Prior to his appointment as full professor at the University of... more

JSM Writers Workshop for Junior Researchers a Success! Again!

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Knowing how to write well for a technical publication is an important skill for all researchers, but it is especially important for those just beginning what they hope to be a successful career. This workshop, offered since 2007, provides young researchers, those with less than three years since... more

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