ISI strategic priorities reflect the foundation for what ISI wants to achieve as a professional society. In this message ISI President John Bailer deliberates on these priorities.

You are invited to submit your abstracts for Contributed Talks/Posters by 22 March 2021.

The working group was launched by co-chairs Juergen Symanzik and Daniel Jeske in order to identify and coordinate opportunities for the ISI and its Associations to help them improve their identity with data science research, education, and outreach. 

The International Association for Statistical Computing invites submissions for the Data Analysis Competition. The focus of the 2021 competition is the analysis of quality-of-life related data.

ISI and Esri are sponsoring the 2020/21 Spatial Thinking Student Competition. Entry topics may include statistics and data science or focus on areas of the economy, society, and the environment. Apply now!

The International Statistical Literacy Project is now accepting applications for the  Best Cooperative Award 2021 competition.

The Bernoulli Society welcomes applications for the New Researcher Award 2022. The deadline for applications is 15 March 2021.

The Bernoulli Society has launched the Willem van Zwet Medal, to be awarded for special service to the Bernoulli Society. The deadline for nominations is 15 March 2021.

The competition welcomes submissions from young-career statisticians, data scientists and researchers who can demonstrate the skills necessary for effective communication and who recognise the importance of explaining statistics to non-experts.

The latest issue of Significance, including free-access articles on COVID-19, is now available to read online.

The journal of Data Science, Statistics and Visualisation is accepting submissions for a special issue on the modeling and visualisation of data about the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19.

IAOS is pleased to announce the launch of the SJIAOS special supplement on ‘Official Statistics in Africa’.

We regret to announce the death of ISI Elected Member Dr. Alfred W. Franz on 14 January 2021.

We regret to announce the passing of ISI Elected Member Dr. Donald A.S. Fraser on 21 December 2020.

We regret to announce the passing of ISI Elected Member Mrs. Lelia I. Boeri de Cervetto on 3 January 2021.

Funded by the World Bank and developed by Marcel de Toledo Vieira with the support of the IASS, the course materials are now available online.

The IASS is pleased to announce its first francophone webinar, "The generalized weight share method and its applications", to be held on 26 February 2021.

The 25th International Conference on Computational Statistics, London, UK was rescheduled to 22-25 August 2023 (postponed from August 2022).

The 24th International Conference on Computational Statistics at the University of Bologna, Italy was rescheduled to 23-26 August 2022 (postponed initially from August 2020, and later from August 2021).

A new issue of ISBIS News is now available to read online. 

The webinar will be held on 22 February 2021, 9.00 – 11.00 EST and will examine the issues of misuse and false statistics from different perspectives.

The BS Nomination Committee presented its report with the candidacy for the post of the BS President starting August 2023.

The online 2021 IASE satellite conference will be held from 30 August – 4 September 2021. The conference International Program Committee calls for submissions in the form of papers, workshops and posters that fit the theme “Statistics Education in the Era of Data Science”.

Join Esri for an in depth discussion exploring some of the key issues on the integration of statistical and geospatial including importance of frameworks such as IGIF and GSGF, use of standards such as SDMX and discussion on dissemination of data.

Check out the interactive map created by Esri to learn about distinguished women in statistics.