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August 2020
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You are invited to visit the ISI website to read news on the following: |
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President’s Column: Creating Space |
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I had the pleasure of meeting educator and author Parker Palmer many years ago. He said that the role of a teacher is to create a space where students can learn. I thought about Palmer’s comment when I reflected on the role of a statistical society and conferences that it hosts. I like that ‘creating space’ contains two meanings – the act of creating space for some purpose and the space itself where a creative act occurs.
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World Statistics Congress (WSC) | |
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ISI World Statistics Congress 2021 goes VIRTUAL! |
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The International Statistical Institute is pleased to announce that its flagship biennial ‘World Statistics Congress 2021 - The Hague’ will be held virtually in July 2021. |
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ISI World Statistics Congress 2023: Ottawa is chosen! |
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We are excited to announce that the World Statistics Congress 2023 will be held in Ottawa, Canada. The Congress will take place from 15 to 20 July, in the Shaw Centre, in the heart of the city. |
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ISI Officers’ Elections : Get to know the nominees |
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The election of ISI officers for the period 2021-2023/2025 will be held from 8 September through 20 October 2020.
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Statisticians React to the News – every week! |
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The new weekly blog sponsored by ISI published its first post on 21 July. The purpose of the blog is to share thoughts related to the news from a statistician’s often unique perspective. |
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Ethel Newbold Prize 2021: Call for nominations |
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The Bernoulli Society’s Newbold Prize Committee invites nominations for the fourth Ethel Newbold Prize. The prize for excellence in statistics is awarded every two years, next time in spring 2021.
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COVID-19 Resource Page |
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The ISI Committee on the Public Voice of Statistics maintains the COVID-19 resource page which so far has had about 10,000 unique views. The page is not intended as a repository of COVID-19 research, but more a place for statisticians to start looking for resources if they are interested in the area. |
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Call for Papers: SERJ Special Issue "Research on Data Science Education" |
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The Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ) invites submissions for its special issue dedicated to research on data science education to appear in June 2022.
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New! Significance Magazine Volume 17, Issue 4 – August 2020 |
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The latest issue of Significance, including free access to articles on Covid-19, is now available to read online.
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News from the Statistical Capacity Building Committee |
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The ISI Statistical Capacity Building Committee, in cooperation with the LISA 2020 network, has supported the Online Workshop “Tidyverse for Data Science” for women in statistics in Lahore, Pakistan. The workshop turned to be a great success.
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Daniela Witten receives the ASA Leo Breiman Junior Award |
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ISI Elected member Daniela Witten, University of Washington, has received the American Statistical Association’s 2021 Leo Breiman Junior Award. The Breiman Award recognizes Witten’s outstanding contributions to statistical learning, computational statistics, and their practical applications.
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In Memoriam: Georges Le Calvé (1936 – 2020) |
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Georges Le Calvé, ISI Elected member since 1985, passed away on 14 July, 2020. He was 84 years old.
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News from ISLP |
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The ISLP Poster Competition 2020-2021 and the Best Cooperative Award have begun. There is still time to sign your country or team up to the competitions. We are also gathering materials for the next ISLP Newsletter on the theme “How can statistics help in a crisis situation?“. Please submit articles by the end of August.
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News from The International Environmetrics Society |
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Read about the TIES’s recent activities and note that the TIES Annual General Meeting 2020 will take place virtually on 21 August 2020 at 1pm (BST). All TIES members are invited to attend this meeting.
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IASS News |
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The latest IASS news update covers items related to the upcoming IASS Annual General Meeting, the next IASS webinar, a need to revise the Cochran-Hansen Prize and other conference-related news.
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Bernoulli Society News |
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Read about the upcoming activities of the Bernoulli Society including the Bernoulli-IMS One World Symposium 2020, the One World Extremes Seminar and the 2021 edition of the Ethel Newbold Prize.
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IAOS News |
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This issue includes information on the latest and upcoming editions of the SJIAOS, the Young Statisticians Prize 2021, a Memorial Conference and Special Issue of the Royal Statistical Society Series A in memory of Fred Smith and Chris Skinner, and more.
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IASC News |
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The August issue of IASC news includes updates on the ISI WSC’s 2021 and 2023, news from the IASC Executive Committee, a report on the virtual DSSV conference in July and more.
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ISBIS News |
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Read about the nominee for the ISBIS Gosset Lecture, the ISBIS representatives on the ISI Working Group on Data Science, and two upcoming conferences.
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News from Affiliated Organizations | |
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News from the IFC on Enhancing Fintech Statistics |
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On 24 July 2020 the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC) published the IFC Report Towards monitoring financial innovation in central bank statistics. The report was prepared by the IFC Working Group on Fintech Data Issues with the purpose to enhance the understanding and statistical measurement of fintech.
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News from Esri |
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View the latest news from Esri covering Esri President’s address at the UN High Level Political Forum, Esri’s support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing help to Member States and national statistical agencies in the form of software, training, and solutions, and more.
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Stats+Stories |
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A podcast about the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics: listen to the latest episodes.
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Contact
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Statistical Science for a Better World |
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