On 20 October 2020 the global statistical community is celebrating the World Statistics Day. Read the ISI President’s column dedicated to this special day.

We are proud to announce that the ISI President John Bailer has won the 2021 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award as member of Stats+Stories podcast team.

The Statistical Journal of the IAOS welcomes papers on important topics relevant to official statistics.

The ISI Short Course Committee for ISI WSC 2021 (SCC) is inviting members of the ISI and its Associations to submit proposals to deliver online short courses.

ISI and Esri are pleased to announce the 2020-2021 Student Competition. Designed to promote research, encourage spatial thinking, and inspire curiosity, students have the opportunity to develop a Story Map and win prizes!

The latest issue of Significance, is now available to read online.

Due to the advancement of technologies, we are now capable of gathering datasets, often unstructured, in real time. Analyzing these datasets however can no longer be managed by traditional statistical analysis that are often still utilized by national statistics offices.

Read about the latest and upcoming activities organized by the ISI Special Interest Group on Sports Statistics.

Jarig van Sinderen, ISI Elected member and professor affiliated with Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands, passed away on 23 September 2020.

The IASC-ISI Nomination Committee congratulates four IASC members awarded ISI Elected membership status in September 2020.

This first event on the value of data, sponsored by y-BIS, intends to provide an opportunity for both data holders and data analysers to extract the maximum value from their data.

Read the latest message from the IAOS President John Pullinger including announcements of IAOS activities and a call for nominations for the IAOS Executive Committee.

Previously planned for May 2020, it is now expected that the conference will be held in September 2021 in Livingstone, Zambia.

This regional conference of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS) in conjunction with the Silver Jubilee Anniversary of the Department of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India, will be held from 28 -30 December 2020.

At the virtual JSM 2020 conference, editorial board members of the Journal of Statistics Education, Statistics Education Research Journal, Technology Innovations in Statistics Education, and The American Statistician formed a panel to discuss ways to present research results in their journals.

The UN Task Force was created with the objective to support the coordination of the COVID-19 impact surveys, provide guidance on maintaining the continuity of regular survey programmes and various methodological aspects of COVID-19 related surveys, and establish a collective vision on the implications of COVID-19 for reshaping the national household survey.

Listen to the latest episodes with Rob Santos on 2020 US census concerns, Ron Fricker & Steve Rigdon on planning for a pandemic, and Sharon Lohr on crime statistics.

The ZDM special issue on innovations in statistical modelling to connect data, chance and context is freely available to read during the month of October 2020.

Young Statisticians Europe (YSE) is an initiative of a group of young professionals in statistics, econometrics and data analysis, aiming to develop a network of young statisticians at European level to facilitate best practice exchange and collaboration in research and teaching.