SOY Award

It is an article of faith that big data will have profound consequences for science and for society.  Many of the consequences are unlikely to be understood for some time.  Of special interest to statisticians is what consequences big data may bring for our field.  Many of the methods used in conjunction with big data efforts were invented or perfected by statisticians.  Thus the advent of interest in big data could make statistics “the sexiest field around” as one commentator has suggested.  However, it is easy to imagine that other fields could eclipse statistics as the principal source of inspiration and training for working with big data, to the detriment of both statistics and the sciences that hope to benefit from big data.  An example of recent work on the problem of statistical disclosure control in big educational data illustrates some surprising benefits of statistical work in this context.

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Dr. Hedges was selected for the SOY award by past recipients based on his ongoing commitment to the statistical sciences which have influenced the fields of statistics, psychology, education, social policy, and much more.

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