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Recommended: A sampling of outstanding women in analytics
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This is a list (with single paragraph descriptions) of 186 women who have accomplished great things in the area of Analytics. There is a brief accompanying article at the Forbes magazine website, but it is very brief. The author of this list, Meta S. Brown, defines Analytics quite broadly, so the women have very diverse backgrounds and interests. I only recognized one name off the bat, Grace Wahba, an excellent researcher, but someone, unfortunately, that I haven’t met. If I get a chance, I’ll include in a separate blog post a list of outstanding women in Analytics that I HAVE met. Meta Brown’s list includes links so you can find out more about these talented women. Continue reading
Recommended: Hi, I’m Mike Bostock.
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This is an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session with Mike Bostock, a former graphics editor for the New York Times and creator of the d3.js data visualization package. I’ll be writing a few things about d3.js once I figure things out. Mike is someone worth watching, because he is working on high visibility, high impact stuff. Continue reading
Recommended: What I need from statisticians
This interview with Nate Silver was conducted shortly after his keynote address at the 2013 Joint Statistical Meetings. I was at those meetings, but was stuck in a class (a very good class by the way, but I still felt stuck) on software engineering for statisticians. This article summarizes the main points of Mr. Silver’s keynote address and adds some extra insights through an interview after the speech. The best part was the quote at the end.
When asked that “Data science is the term of the day. Do you think there is a difference between data science and statistics? Silver replied, “I think data-scientist is a sexed up term for a statistician”, the reaction from the audience was for most, one of instantaneous laughter and applause. “Statistics is a branch of science. Data scientist is slightly redundant in some way and people shouldn’t berate the term statistician.”
If Nate Silver can say something this controversial, then maybe I shouldn’t be so bashful. Continue reading
Recommended: Hadley Wickham, the Man Who Revolutionized R
Hadley Wickham has written many popular R packages, so many that they are sometimes referred to as the “Hadleyverse.” This is a nice biography that emphasizes the impact that Dr. Wickham has had on R. Continue reading
Recommended: Meet John Gawalt, Director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
This is a brief interview with John Gawalt, the new director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science Foundation. Continue reading
Recommended: Meet Charles J. Rothwell, Director, National Center for Health Statistics
This is a brief interview with the director of the National Center for Health Statistics, a statistical agency for the United States government that produces many nationally representative health surveys. Continue reading
Recommended: The Next Billionaire: A Statistician Who Changed Medicine.
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