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Predictions, Role of Interventions and the Crisis of Virus in India: A Data Science Call to Arms (March 5, 2021)

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At this point Bhramar Mukherjee (University of Michigan) is no stranger to research on better understanding the COVID-19 virus.  She showed to us how she used the statistical power to help inform lockdown policies in India. Her comments during this session involved a review and discussion of... more

Implementation of Guidelines for Ethical Statistical Practice Illustrated (February 26, 2021)

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Rochelle Tractenberg (Georgetown University) was the instructor of the seventh of a series of tutorials that focus on topics that are essential for all statisticians and data scientists to be familiar with.  While this topic may not involve the technical methods, software or coding of previous... more

Misinformation and Attitude Formation Analyzed Through Social Media Posts (February 19, 2021)

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In this COPSS-NISS hosted webinar, Aengus Bridgman, (McGill University) presented a quick review of three papers that he had recently co-authored.  (see Event page)  These papers included: “A Rare Moment of Cross-Partisan Consensus: Elite and Public Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in... more

Valuable Opportunities Abound in NISS Graduate Student Network (February 16, 2021)

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The NISS Graduate Student Network was initially established during Summer of 2020 with the goal of bringing together students from different institutions. Currently, David Kent (Cornell University), Hannah Waddel (Emory University), Rebecca Kurtz-Garcia (UCRiverside), and Xinjun Wang (University of... more

UPDATE: NISS Data Visualization Competition (February 16, 2021)

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In December, NISS launched the “SAID in Graphics Data Visualization Competition” to encourage graduate students to revision the graphics used in online educational reports. A wide array of methods and insights were brought to bear in the entries received from eight interdisciplinary teams and... more

Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten 2011 (February 16, 2021)

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When data from the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) national study, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Kindergarten 2011 (ECLS-K), first became available, Ya Mo and Nell Sedransk began an examination of students’ characteristics and demographics and their influence on learning in... more

NISS on YouTube! (February 15, 2021)

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Over the past year and a half NISS has accumulated quite a repository of video recordings. Nearly all of the NISS videos are publicly available either through the NISS website / News, or more recently organized into Playlists on the NISS Communications Youtube Channel. Here is the lineup of... more

Successful COPSS-NISS Data Science Webinars Focus on Current COVID Research (February 16, 2021)

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The COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data Science webinar series is co-organized by the Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) and its five charter member societies (ASA, ENAR, IMS, SSC, and WNAR), as well as NISS.  This bi-weekly seminar features the latest... more

NISS Recognizes the Contributions of E James Harner (February 15, 2021)

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It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Professor E James Harner. Jim Harner who passed away on February 9, 2021 was Professor Emeritus of Statistics at West Virginia University (WVU). He was the Chair of the Department of Statistics for 17 years and the Director of the... more

Energy, Interaction and Examples Highpoint of Unstructured Data Analysis Tutorial - Text Mining

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Julia Silge (RStudio) is a bundle of positive energy!  As instructor of the sixth tutorial in the NISS Essential Data Science for Business series, she pulled out all of the stops using polls, interactive questions, examples and more examples throughout the session.  All of her slides and... more

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