Dear ASA Members,
The ASA released Thursday a Board statement on the Role of Statistics in Data Science: http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2015/10/01/asa-statement-on-the-role-of-statistics-in-data-science/. Like all other board statements, it’s also listed here: http://www.amstat.org/policy/boardstatements.cfm.
ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein wrote an accompanying blog entry discussing ASA efforts to further facilitate collaboration between statisticians and other data scientists: http://community.amstat.org/blogs/ronald-wasserstein/2015/10/01/the-role-of-statistics-in-data-science-an-asa-statement.
The press release for the statement is here: http://www.amstat.org/newsroom/pressreleases/2015-ASA-StatisticsFoundationaltoDataScience.pdf.
To supplement these efforts, This is Statistics will start featuring Data Scientist Profiles, the first one being here: http://thisisstatistics.org/interview-with-shannon-cebron-from-pegged-software/.
Best,
Steve
------------------------------Steve PiersonDirector of Science PolicyAmerican Statistical Association------------------------------
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