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“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be sta7s7cians” – Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
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“The very fact that people can talk about data science without even realizing there is a field already devoted to the analysis of data – a field called sta$s$cs – is alarming”
— Larry Wasserman
“My impression is that many scien$sts view sta$s$cs not so much as a science but as a ‘bag of tools.’ ” – Alan Leshner, CEO, AAAS
2011 McKinsey Global Ins$tute Report
Big Data: The Next Fron7er for Innova7on, Compe77on, and Produc7vity
“A significant constraint will be a shortage of…people with deep exper$se in sta$s$cs and data mining…a talent gap of 140K –190K posi$ons in 2018.”
American Community Survey
“We’re spending $70 per person to fill this out. That’s just not cost effec$ve, especially since in the end this is not a scien7fic survey. It’s a random survey.” – Rep. Daniel Webster, The New York Times, May 19, 2012.
ASA Strategic Plan Themes
• The ASA as “The Big Tent for Sta$s$cs” • Increasing the Visibility of the
Profession
2013: The Interna$onal Year of Sta$s$cs
• ASA • Ins$tute of Mathema$cal Sta$s$cs (IMS) • Interna$onal Biometric Society (IBS) • Interna$onal Sta$s$cal Ins$tute (ISI) and
Bernoulli Society • Royal Sta$s$cal Society (RSS)
2013: The Interna$onal Year of Sta$s$cs
• ASA • Ins$tute of Mathema$cal Sta$s$cs (IMS) • Interna$onal Biometric Society (IBS) • Interna$onal Sta$s$cal Ins$tute (ISI) and
Bernoulli Society • Royal Sta$s$cal Society (RSS)
+ You
Promote the importance of sta$s$cs • To your collaborators and leaders • To the public and your local media • Within the AAAS (join!)
Seize the opportunity presented by the posi$ve stories in the media
+ You
Promote the importance of sta$s$cs • To your collaborators and leaders • To the public and your local media • Within the AAAS (join!) • To businesses and research organiza$ons
with data challenges • To colleagues in “data science” disciplines
Engage with those in other fields doing data-‐driven work