2017-2018

June 19th, 2018

Statistical Advocate Award

Award Winner:  David B. Allison, Dean of The School of Public Health at Indiana University
Topic:  Advocating for Greater Statistical Rigor: Why, How, and Examples from Nutrition and Obesity Research
Time:  6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610 

June 14th, 2018

Luncheon

Presenters:  University of Chicago Masters in Analytics Capstone Project by Emily Coppess, Jay Ong, Shahbaz Chaudhry & Ashish Pujari
Topic:  Neural Networks and Deep Learning: A Practical Application in Image Recognition
Time:  12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610 

May 8th, 2018

Luncheon

Presenters:  Leah Welty, Abigail Baldrige, Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University
Topic:  Connecting Statistical Output to Microsoft Word: A Practical Approach to Reproducibility
Time:  12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610 

April 27th, 2018

Workshop

Presenter:  Wei-Yin Loh, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Topic:  Title: Art and Practice of Regression Trees
Time:  8:30am - 5:00pm
Location:  Chicago, DePaul Loop campus

April 12th, 2018

Luncheon

Presenters:  Larry V. Hedges, Department of Statistics at Northwestern University
Topic: Replication: What Every Researcher and Data Scientist Needs to Know!
Time:  12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610 

March 14th, 2018

Conference

Presenters: 
Chris Wikle (Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri)
Won Chang (Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati)
Sooin Yun (PhD Candidate, UIUC)
Will Kleiber (Assistnat Professor, University of Colorado)
Chen Chen: (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago)

Session Titles: 
Christopher Wikle: Adapting Science-Based and Machine Learning Methods for Statistical Long-Lead Forecasting of the Ocean, Atmosphere, and Related Processes
Won Chang: Calibrating an Ice Sheet Model Using High-Dimensional Binary Spatial Data
Sooin Yun: Comparing Two Spatio-Temporal Fields
Will Kleiber: Statistical Challenges in Creating Historical Weather Products for the United States
Chen Chen: Complex Changes in Precipitation Characteristics Revealed by Feature Tracking

Time:  8:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:  UIC Student Center East

February 15th, 2018

Luncheon

Presenters:  Ari Kaplan, Principal of Enterprise Analytics at Aginity
Topic: Moneyball and Raoul Wallenberg Analytics
Time:  12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610 

January 9th, 2018

Luncheon

Presenters:  Vijay K. Gurbani, Ph.D., Network Data Science, Nokia Networks
Topic: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity & Safeguarding Communications Networks
Time:  12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610 

December 14th, 2017

Luncheon

Presenters:  Paul Wallenberg, LaSalle Network, Manager
Topic: 2018 Analytics Career Outlook & Marketing Your Skills
Time:  12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610 

November 14th, 2017

Luncheon

Presenters:  Adam Stokes, HAVI Group, Manager – Analytic Solutions
Topic: Automating Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics – Combining High Tech and High Touch Through Machine Learning
Time:  12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610 

October 17th, 2017

Statistician of the Year Dinner

Award Winner:  Roderick Little, Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan
Topic:  A Career in Statistics -- the Missing Data
Time:  6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610 

October 12th, 2017

Luncheon

Presenters: Joan Zhang, Walgreens Boots Alliance, IT Engineer
Topic: An Application of Machine Learning – Step by Step
Time:  12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610 

September 12th, 2017

Luncheon

Presenters: Seth Weidman, Metis, Senior Data Scientist
Topic: Neural Nets: What They Are, How and Why They Work
Time:  12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:  The East Bank Club, 500 N Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60610