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In the spirit of the season:
Happy Holidays from the CCASA!
It has been a busy year of fantastic luncheons, our hit data visualization conference, and most recently the sold-out Statistician of the Year dinner. The CCASA would like to thank The Lucille Derrick Fund and all of our donors for their continuing support. It is through your willingness to donate and bequeath donations that the CCASA has grown to become one of the most lively ASA Chapters in the country!
Continue reading for more about our December luncheon with the always-engaging Stephen M. Stigler,The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, which promises to offer a unique twist on the statistical taxonomy, and mark your calendars for our January luncheon withKunpeng Zhang, Scalable Audience Finding for Online Social Brand Advertising.
Save the date for our spring workshop with Vanderbilt University professor Frank Harrell where he will be working with Regression Modeling Strategies.
We've also included information about Northwestern's one year Master's program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the current bestseller How We Got to Now, and information about how to advertise your job opening, academic program, or consulting services with the CCASA.
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December Luncheon with
Stephen M. Stigler
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The Seven Pillars
of Statistical Wisdom
Stephen M. Stigler
December 16th 2014
12pm-1:30pm
East Bank Club
500 N Kingsbury
Chicago, IL 60610
Widely known as one of the most entertaining personalities in statistics, the CCASA is thrilled to be having Stephen M. Stigler as our December luncheon speaker. Kick off the holiday season in statistical style as Dr. Stigler offers an unconventional take on the traditional taxonomy.
Click here to register for the December luncheon!
Abstract
In a 1942 essay Jorge Luis Borges gave a Chinese encyclopedia's taxonomy for the kinds of animals that exist. The list of 14 types included: Those that belong to the emperor, Embalmed ones, Fabulous ones, Stray dogs, and Those that, at a distance, resemble flies. This talk will present a taxonomy of statistical ideas based upon historical considerations that also differs from traditional categories.
Bio
Stephen M. Stigler received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and initially taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1979 he moved to the University of Chicago where he has taught ever since. He has published a large number of research papers and two books, The History of Statistics (1986) and Statistics on the Table (1999), both published by Harvard University Press.
Dr. Stigler is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society; he has served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the International Statistical Institute, founded in the Hague in 1885 as a continuation of the series of Congresses that ASA Foreign Member Adolphe Quetelet inaugurated in Brussels in 1853. Dr. Stigler has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a Visiting Scholar at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and in 2005 received the Humboldt Foundation Research Award.
In 2010 he was elected Membre Associé of the Académie royale de Belgique, Classe des Sciences. After serving as the Theory and Methods Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association 1979-1982, and he was chosen as Outstanding Statistician of the Year by the Chicago Chapter of the ASA in 1993.
Unfortunately we are unable to refund luncheon fees, as per our contract with the East Bank Club. However, if you find you are unable to attend, you are welcome to extend your reservation to someone else.
Please email Adam McElhinney with the name of the person who will be attending in your place.
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Scalable Audience Finding
for Online Social Brand Advertising
Kunpeng Zhang
January 20th 2015
12pm-1:30pm
East Bank Club
Abstract
I will present a recent work which proposes an audience selection framework for online brand advertising based on a large amount of user historical activities on social media platforms. It is one of the first studies to our knowledge that analyzes implicit brand-brand networks for online brand advertising.
Bio
Kunpeng Zhang is a researcher in the area of large-scale data analysis with particular focuses on mining social media data through machine learning, network analysis, and natural language processing techniques.
Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University in 2013, working with Alok Choudhary. His research interests include large-scale social computing, text/web mining, scalable machine learning (probabilistic graphical models, optimization), NLP (semantic web, information extraction), and social network analysis (community detection, information diffusion), and health informatics under social media data.
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The annual conference hosted by the Chicago ASA will be held on March 6th, 2015. We will have a great lineup of speakers from various disciplines on the topic ofprediction and forecasting. Please stay tuned for details in the upcoming months.
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Save the Date
Spring Workshop 2015
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Professor Frank Harrell of Vanderbilt University
will present a one-day workshop on Regression Modeling Strategies on Friday, April 24, 2015. The workshop location will once again be on the Northwestern University Downtown Chicago campus. Registration is not yet open but be sure to save the date!
Abstract:
All standard regression models have assumptions that must be verified for the model to have power to test hypotheses and for it to be able to predict accurately. Of the principal assumptions (linearity, additivity, distributional), this course will emphasize methods for assessing and satisfying the first two.
Practical but powerful tools are presented for validating model assumptions and presenting model results. This course provides methods for estimating the shape of the relationship between predictors and response using the widely applicable method of augmenting the design matrix using restricted cubic splines.
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MS in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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Do you know someone with a bachelor's degree in math or science who is interested in a challenging career in research, but not sure how to get into the field? Northwestern University has a one year Master's Degree program in Epidemiology and Biostatisticsbeginning in the summer, and ending the following June.
Courses include 3 quarter sequences in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and courses in Ethics, Statistical Programming, Clinical Trials, and other electives. Requirements include undergraduate calculus; linear algebra is a plus.Please see our program page for more information and application!
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Book Review
How We Got to Now
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In the theme of books describing innovations that are driving the modern world, How We Got to Now takes the long-view approach. An accompaniment to the PBS series of the same name, Steven Johnson describes six innovations in chapters with seemingly ambiguous titles - Glass, Cold, Sound, Clean, Time, Light - and, starting with the initial innovation, follows it throughout time to show how it is affecting its distant innovation cousins today.
Similar to The Innovators from November's Parameter,
How We Got to Now emphasizes that history is less about one "epiphany moment" and more about how innovations work in concert with each other, with each creator contributing a piece of the puzzle over the course of history.
The Wall Street Journal's review offers a few spectacular examples of how Johnson's vision takes shape throughout the book, and is worth a read if you're interested in seeing how modern inventions came to be.
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Advertising with the CCASA
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Would you like to advertise a job posting, academic program, or consulting services in the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association's monthly newsletter and on our website?
Our Parameter goes out to thousands of quantitative professionals, students, and academics in the Chicagoland area and is a great option for targeted advertising to the statistical community. Advertisements remain valid for one month.
Please visit our information page for more details on payment and ad specifications.
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