SCASA eNewsletter January 2018.pub
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SCASA: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN
SCASA Events and News
STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
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2018 OCLBASA/SCASA Careers Day Saturday, February 24, 2018, 9:00am to 1:00pm Chapman University, Orange, CA, Irvine Lecture Hall
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AP STATISTICS Poster Competition Saturday, April 7, 2018, 2:00pm to 5:00pm Chapman University, Orange, CA
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The 37th Annual Applied Statistics Workshop Saturday, April 21, 2018, 9:00am to 4:00pm Argyros Auditorium, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, City of Hope, Duarte, CA
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ASA DataFest Friday, April 27 through Sunday, April 29, 2018 Chapman University and UCLA
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2018 OCLBASA/SCASA Careers Day Request for Volunteers As Exhibitors & Mock Interviewers February 24, 2018, 9:00am to 1:00pm Chapman University, Orange, CA, Irvine Lecture Hall The OCLBASA/SCASA Careers Day is an excellent opportunity for southern California professionals to volunteer a few hours to help 150+ students and professionals-in-transition advance their careers in the use of statistics. Bring your students and/or come for the opportunity to network with your southern California colleagues!
Event Schedule:
9:00am – 11:45am 12pm – 1:00pm
Networking/Exhibitors/Mock Interviews Keynote Talk: Statisticians & Climate Change
Imagine the statistical challenges associated with predicting electricity demand & supply as (a) electronics explode in popularity; (b) electricity sources transform; (c) electric vehicles become the norm; (d) home battery storage becomes possible. Speaker: Dr. Alejandro Komai is a data scientist in Southern California Edison’s predictive analytics group.
Exhibitors:
Exhibitors representing their employers or their academic departments staff a table for 3 hours between 9:00 and noon. Exhibitors provide help/information to students and professionals in transition. They typically chat with 30-50 students one-on-one and in small groups at their exhibitor table to critique resumes, provide industry background and answer questions. Exhibitors with job openings are welcome to collect resumes. Professional recruiters are welcome but the fee for participation is $250. No fee is required for other exhibitors.
Mock Interviewers:
Individuals from pharma/healthcare, database management, data modeling, business analytics, and academia each conduct up to six, 30-minute long mock applicant interviews. These individuals should be experienced in the evaluations of applicants. Students/Applicants will be asked to pick a specific sector (business analytics, pharma/healthcare, or graduate program). Interview content is up to the interviewer but may include: Student skills, strengths & weaknesses, and career/academic objectives.
Please volunteer
by contacting Harry Hiner at [email protected] or 562-495-2436 x14. Please provide your contact information, a sentence or two on the type of work you do and your company, and indicate if you’d like to be an exhibitor, mock interviewer or both. Please send name and contact information on those who will attend on behalf on your enterprise or academic department. h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
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AP Statistics High School Poster Competition By Heidi Gransar, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Rebecca Le, County of Riverside, and Karen Beatty, Chapman University
The annual AP Statistics High School Poster Competition is fast approaching. It will be held on Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Chapman University, 2-5pm. This event is jointly hosted by the Orange County/Long Beach and Southern California ASA Chapters. This is a great chance to get to know the AP stats program and see what our talented high school students are doing with Statistics. Chapter members will have a great opportunity to collaborate with high school teachers to encourage next generation learning Statistics. All judges will be treated to light refreshments, plus the added prestige of being a judge and sharing your expertise! All AP Stat teachers will be given lunch and a chance to network and all will have a chance to visit our beautiful Chapman campus and a chance to win a prize.
We need judges! We need AP Stat teachers! We need AP Stat students with their posters! If you are interested in participating as a judge or otherwise helping out with this event, please contact Heidi Gransar at [email protected]. For AP stat teachers and students, please contact Karen Beatty at [email protected].
Thank you in advance for your participation!
Photos from the last year event
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The 37th SCASA Annual Applied Statistics Workshop The 37th Annual Applied Statistics Workshop (ASW) will take place on Saturday, April 21, 2018, at the Argyros Auditorium, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, City of Hope, Duarte, CA. Our invited speaker will be Dr. Ofer Harel, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut. The topic of the workshop will be “Problem of Dealing with Incomplete Data”. The Event Schedule will be: 8:30am – 9:00am Check-in, Late Registration, Breakfast 9:00am – 10:30am Welcome and Session 1 10:30am – 11:00am Break 11:00am – 12:30pm Session 2 12:30pm – 1:30pm Lunch (vegetarian option included)
Dr. Ofer Harel
1:30pm – 2:45pm Session 3 2:45-3:00pm Raffle (must be present to win) 3:00pm – 4:00pm Session 4 The event website is located at http://community.amstat.org/scasa/asw It will contain all details of the event: abstract, bio, schedule, and driving and parking directions. A 123signup.com page will be launched in February for registration and payment. The registration costs are as follows:
Online registration: SCASA member/non-member $40/$50 At the door: SCASA member/non-member $50/$60 Students:
FREE (please advertise this fact and bring more students)
This event also appears on the SCASA meetup website https://www.meetup.com/sc-asa/ You are welcome to indicate your intention to come at that site. h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
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ASA DataFest in Southern California Chapman University and UCLA April 27-29, 2018 By Madeline Bauer, USC (retired), and Harry Hiner, Hiner Partners
Professor Rob Gould started DataFest in 2011 at UCLA with 30 students. This event has become so popular in Southern California that a second SoCal site was hosted at Chapman University for the 2017 ASA DataFest. ASA DataFest is now sponsored by the American Statistical Association and hosted by some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the US, Canada, and Germany. More than 2000 students took part in 2017 (see the map on the next page and https://gallery.shinyapps.io/datafest-map-allyears/). A key feature of ASA DataFest is that it brings together the data science community: Undergraduate students do the work, but they are assisted by roving consultants who are graduate students, faculty, and industry professionals. Many professionals find DataFest to be a great recruiting opportunity–they get to watch talented undergraduate students work under pressure in a team and examine their thinking processes. After two days of intense data wrangling, analysis, and presentation design, each team is allowed a few minutes and no more than two slides to impress a panel of judges. Prizes are given for Best in Show, Best Visualization, and Best Use of External Data. There is something for everyone at DataFest – Undergraduates Students (Compete in Teams of 2-5) Chapman Sign up at http://www.chapman.edu/datafest (click Student Participant Registration on the left-hand side panel) UCLA Sign up at http://datafest.stat.ucla.edu/ Professional Statisticians, Data Scientists, Faculty, Graduate Students: Mentors Chapman Sign up at http://www.chapman.edu/datafest (click Sign up as a DataFest Visitor on the left-hand side panel) UCLA http://datafest.stat.ucla.edu/ or contact [email protected] Judges Contact Michael Fahy at [email protected] or Rob Gould at [email protected] Sponsors are needed for each or both events! Contact Michael Fahy at [email protected] or Rob Gould at [email protected] Contribute prizes to be awarded as “midnight raffles” during the competition.
See you at ASA DataFest! h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
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Map: Schools that Participated in DataFest in 2017
CSUSB
CSUF
UCSB
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Dr. Normalcurvesaurus, Ph.D. presents
If you would like to submit an entry to the next issue, please contact me at Olga.Korosteleva@ csulb.edu. Yours Truly, Olga Korosteleva, Your Editor-in-Chief
h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
SCASA: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN
SCASA Events and News
STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
V O L U M E
7 ,
Page 2
I S S U E
1
J A N U A R Y
2 0 1 8
2018 OCLBASA/SCASA Careers Day Saturday, February 24, 2018, 9:00am to 1:00pm Chapman University, Orange, CA, Irvine Lecture Hall
Page 3
AP STATISTICS Poster Competition Saturday, April 7, 2018, 2:00pm to 5:00pm Chapman University, Orange, CA
Page 4
The 37th Annual Applied Statistics Workshop Saturday, April 21, 2018, 9:00am to 4:00pm Argyros Auditorium, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, City of Hope, Duarte, CA
Pages 5 –6
ASA DataFest Friday, April 27 through Sunday, April 29, 2018 Chapman University and UCLA
h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
V O L U M E
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I S S U E
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P A G E
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2018 OCLBASA/SCASA Careers Day Request for Volunteers As Exhibitors & Mock Interviewers February 24, 2018, 9:00am to 1:00pm Chapman University, Orange, CA, Irvine Lecture Hall The OCLBASA/SCASA Careers Day is an excellent opportunity for southern California professionals to volunteer a few hours to help 150+ students and professionals-in-transition advance their careers in the use of statistics. Bring your students and/or come for the opportunity to network with your southern California colleagues!
Event Schedule:
9:00am – 11:45am 12pm – 1:00pm
Networking/Exhibitors/Mock Interviews Keynote Talk: Statisticians & Climate Change
Imagine the statistical challenges associated with predicting electricity demand & supply as (a) electronics explode in popularity; (b) electricity sources transform; (c) electric vehicles become the norm; (d) home battery storage becomes possible. Speaker: Dr. Alejandro Komai is a data scientist in Southern California Edison’s predictive analytics group.
Exhibitors:
Exhibitors representing their employers or their academic departments staff a table for 3 hours between 9:00 and noon. Exhibitors provide help/information to students and professionals in transition. They typically chat with 30-50 students one-on-one and in small groups at their exhibitor table to critique resumes, provide industry background and answer questions. Exhibitors with job openings are welcome to collect resumes. Professional recruiters are welcome but the fee for participation is $250. No fee is required for other exhibitors.
Mock Interviewers:
Individuals from pharma/healthcare, database management, data modeling, business analytics, and academia each conduct up to six, 30-minute long mock applicant interviews. These individuals should be experienced in the evaluations of applicants. Students/Applicants will be asked to pick a specific sector (business analytics, pharma/healthcare, or graduate program). Interview content is up to the interviewer but may include: Student skills, strengths & weaknesses, and career/academic objectives.
Please volunteer
by contacting Harry Hiner at [email protected] or 562-495-2436 x14. Please provide your contact information, a sentence or two on the type of work you do and your company, and indicate if you’d like to be an exhibitor, mock interviewer or both. Please send name and contact information on those who will attend on behalf on your enterprise or academic department. h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
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AP Statistics High School Poster Competition By Heidi Gransar, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Rebecca Le, County of Riverside, and Karen Beatty, Chapman University
The annual AP Statistics High School Poster Competition is fast approaching. It will be held on Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Chapman University, 2-5pm. This event is jointly hosted by the Orange County/Long Beach and Southern California ASA Chapters. This is a great chance to get to know the AP stats program and see what our talented high school students are doing with Statistics. Chapter members will have a great opportunity to collaborate with high school teachers to encourage next generation learning Statistics. All judges will be treated to light refreshments, plus the added prestige of being a judge and sharing your expertise! All AP Stat teachers will be given lunch and a chance to network and all will have a chance to visit our beautiful Chapman campus and a chance to win a prize.
We need judges! We need AP Stat teachers! We need AP Stat students with their posters! If you are interested in participating as a judge or otherwise helping out with this event, please contact Heidi Gransar at [email protected]. For AP stat teachers and students, please contact Karen Beatty at [email protected].
Thank you in advance for your participation!
Photos from the last year event
h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
V O L U M E
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I S S U E
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P A G E
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The 37th SCASA Annual Applied Statistics Workshop The 37th Annual Applied Statistics Workshop (ASW) will take place on Saturday, April 21, 2018, at the Argyros Auditorium, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, City of Hope, Duarte, CA. Our invited speaker will be Dr. Ofer Harel, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut. The topic of the workshop will be “Problem of Dealing with Incomplete Data”. The Event Schedule will be: 8:30am – 9:00am Check-in, Late Registration, Breakfast 9:00am – 10:30am Welcome and Session 1 10:30am – 11:00am Break 11:00am – 12:30pm Session 2 12:30pm – 1:30pm Lunch (vegetarian option included)
Dr. Ofer Harel
1:30pm – 2:45pm Session 3 2:45-3:00pm Raffle (must be present to win) 3:00pm – 4:00pm Session 4 The event website is located at http://community.amstat.org/scasa/asw It will contain all details of the event: abstract, bio, schedule, and driving and parking directions. A 123signup.com page will be launched in February for registration and payment. The registration costs are as follows:
Online registration: SCASA member/non-member $40/$50 At the door: SCASA member/non-member $50/$60 Students:
FREE (please advertise this fact and bring more students)
This event also appears on the SCASA meetup website https://www.meetup.com/sc-asa/ You are welcome to indicate your intention to come at that site. h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1
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ASA DataFest in Southern California Chapman University and UCLA April 27-29, 2018 By Madeline Bauer, USC (retired), and Harry Hiner, Hiner Partners
Professor Rob Gould started DataFest in 2011 at UCLA with 30 students. This event has become so popular in Southern California that a second SoCal site was hosted at Chapman University for the 2017 ASA DataFest. ASA DataFest is now sponsored by the American Statistical Association and hosted by some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the US, Canada, and Germany. More than 2000 students took part in 2017 (see the map on the next page and https://gallery.shinyapps.io/datafest-map-allyears/). A key feature of ASA DataFest is that it brings together the data science community: Undergraduate students do the work, but they are assisted by roving consultants who are graduate students, faculty, and industry professionals. Many professionals find DataFest to be a great recruiting opportunity–they get to watch talented undergraduate students work under pressure in a team and examine their thinking processes. After two days of intense data wrangling, analysis, and presentation design, each team is allowed a few minutes and no more than two slides to impress a panel of judges. Prizes are given for Best in Show, Best Visualization, and Best Use of External Data. There is something for everyone at DataFest – Undergraduates Students (Compete in Teams of 2-5) Chapman Sign up at http://www.chapman.edu/datafest (click Student Participant Registration on the left-hand side panel) UCLA Sign up at http://datafest.stat.ucla.edu/ Professional Statisticians, Data Scientists, Faculty, Graduate Students: Mentors Chapman Sign up at http://www.chapman.edu/datafest (click Sign up as a DataFest Visitor on the left-hand side panel) UCLA http://datafest.stat.ucla.edu/ or contact [email protected] Judges Contact Michael Fahy at [email protected] or Rob Gould at [email protected] Sponsors are needed for each or both events! Contact Michael Fahy at [email protected] or Rob Gould at [email protected] Contribute prizes to be awarded as “midnight raffles” during the competition.
See you at ASA DataFest! h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1
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Map: Schools that Participated in DataFest in 2017
CSUSB
CSUF
UCSB
h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
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Dr. Normalcurvesaurus, Ph.D. presents
If you would like to submit an entry to the next issue, please contact me at Olga.Korosteleva@ csulb.edu. Yours Truly, Olga Korosteleva, Your Editor-in-Chief
h p://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsle ers
