Past Events
Event Date:
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 3:00 - 4:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Speakers
Scott Lee (CDC)
"HaMLET: Enabling Quality Control at Scale for CDC’s Immigrant and Refugee Health Screening Program"
Luca Sartore (USDA-NASS/NISS)
"Predictive Cropland Data Layer: From Images to Statistics"
Kusuma Prabhakara (Census)
"U.S. Census Bureau Geography Division Satellite-... more
Event Date:
Friday, March 29, 2024 at 12-1pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Zoom Webinar
United States
United States
Join us for another insightful webinar on the topic of leadership in the field of statistics genomics! The focus of this event will be to discuss how to successfully bridge the interests of statistics & data science and genetics & genomics, and how statisticians and data scientists can... more
Event Date:
Monday, March 18, 2024 - 3 pm - 4:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Speakers
Ellen Galantucci (Federal Maritime Commission)
"Safeguarding Confidentiality in Federal Statistics: Navigating AI Challenges"
Emily Hadley (RTI International)
"Practical Approaches for Ensuring the Responsible Use of AI"
Benjamin Reist (NORC)
"Addressing Algorithm Bias/Fairness in... more
Event Date:
Monday, February 12, 2024 at 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
United States
United States
Speakers
Brandon Kopp, US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
"Clustering Federal Register Comments for Efficient, Manual Review"
Benjamin Rogers, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS/CDC)
"Text Analytics: Background on Large Language Models and their usage"
Kenneth Haase, US Census Bureau
“... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12 pm - 1 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Zoom Webinar
United States
United States
Join us for our another insightful webinar on the topic of leadership in the field of statistics and data science. This webinar explores the critical role of statistical methods in harnessing the vast potential of electronic health records (EHR) data, showcasing cutting-edge research and practical... more
Event Date:
Friday, November 17, 2023 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Zoom Webinar
United States
United States
Overview
Generative language models like ChatGPT and others are rapidly changing the landscape of artificial intelligence. As these models become more prevalent, they raise numerous theoretical and practical questions about their use, limitations, and potential for bias. In this webinar, we... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm ET
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Zoom Webinar
United States
United States
Overview:
The NISS Graduate Student Network is excited to be hosting a second short course on quarto! This short course will teach you how to create your own website using quarto. The instructor for this short course will be Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel from the Department of Statistical Science at... more
Event Date:
Thursday-Friday, November 9-10, 2023
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Carleton College
One North College St
Northfield, Minnesota,
United States
One North College St
Northfield, Minnesota,
United States
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Overview:
Excessive use of force by police is an urgent problem of concern to sociologists, statisticians, policymakers, and the general public. Issues with data quality, processing of unstructured data, tradeoffs between data access and privacy concerns, statistical... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 - 12 pm - 1:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Interested in pursuing a career as a statistician or data scientist at an academic institution? Perhaps you already have accepted an offer or will be on the market this coming year. Then you won’t want to miss this next career fair sponsored by NISS that will offer essential information about job... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - 3 pm - 4:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Overview
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) and the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) are collaborating to present the NISS/FCSM Webinar Series on AI in Federal Government: Uses, Potential Applications, and Issues. Federal practitioners and managers will... more