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Statisticians in the News

News agencies across the globe are reporting on statistics, on important developments in the fields of statistical application and how statisticians are contributing in the areas of scientific advancement, discovery and innovation. The following are a small sampling of these articles:

2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007

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May 2013

• What Are Your Chances of Winning the Powerball Lottery?



• Preparing Students and Teachers to Navigate the Data Stream



• New Audit Allegations Show Flawed Statistical Thinking



• Hans Rosling: the man who's making data cool



• Professor Terry Speed elected as fellow of the Royal Society



• The Next Billionaire: A Statistician



• At home: statistician Hans Rosling



• Math Models Out-Perform Doctors



• Jobs Report Better But Not Great



• Statistician William Charles Hoffman Dies



• Nate Silver: Confidence Kills Predictions



• No shortage of American STEM grads?



• UGA Focus on Faculty: Christine Franklin



• Peter Hall elected National Academy of Sciences Fellow



• Chile's top statistician quits amid controversy

April 2013

• Triangle the Hotbed of the Sexiest Job



• Statistics is 20th Best Job of 2013



• OSU College of Science Gets New Dean



• Evesham Police Use Stats to Cut Crashes, Crime



• Sword-Wielding Statistician Aids Attacked Woman



• Statistics student killed in Boston bombings



• Data for a Brighter Democracy



• Statistics is Berkeley's fastest-growing major



• Martin Wilk passes; 'best statistician in Canada's history'



• Dr. William Kenneth Poole Dies



• Uncertainty, Knowledge, Statistics and Climate Change



• Statistics Is Cool!



• Welcome to the Data Driven World



• Common Core State Standards and the Future of Teacher Preparation in Statistics



• Community college students and the international year of statistics

March 2013

• UofL researchers highlight use of statistics to promoting better health



• Justice Flunks Math



• NCAA Basketball Visualization



• Analytical Cultures: Nurture Yours Through Training



• A Statistician's Work is Never Done



• New Treatments, Your Health and Statistics



• John Snow's data journalism



• Dow Winning Streak Tests Statisticians



• Jury out on statistician's counting



• Greek Statisticians used as Scapegoats



• Forget Calculus. Learn Statistics. It's about data, stupid



• Statistician's doubts about Johns Hopkins research go unanswered



• Strange But True: Bank robbers, pi and smoking



• North Carolina Sociological Association honors ECU professor



• UGA will compare men and women profs' salaries for equity



• The Upbeat Stats on Statistics



• Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus



• 3-D Atlas of the Human Heart Drawn Using Statistics



• Sports analytics: a real game-changer



• Firearms evidence often short on science



• Not Your Average Statistician

February 2013

• Statistician Brings Data-Driven Thinking to Criminal Justice



• Statistically speaking, we don't use calculus much



• Statistician discusses forensic science reform at AAAS meeting



• Role Of Statistics In Climate Change Research Investigated



• What Data Can't Do



• Temple Statistics Professor Damaraju Raghavarao Dies



• Statisticians Estimate 11 Million Illegal Immigrants in U.S.



• Europe's statisticians rally behind Greece's Elstats chief



• Statistician gets top Australian honor



• The First Data Scientist on the Evolution of Data Science



• The Philosophy of Data



• Statistician links cancer to diet



• EU statisticians defend Greek colleague over data charges



• Statisticians search for how to beat the lottery



• NSCB statisticians down to 15 from 50

January 2013

• Greece Charges Statisticians Over Size of Deficit



• Greece's top statistician speaks out



• Statistical Diplomacy in North Korea



• Statisticians ID Anonymous Study Participants



• Will Ravens be hurt by Sports Illustrated jinx?



• JASA: Study assesses benefits of food stamps



• UK statisticians unexpectedly reject inflation change



• Shriram founder Thyagarajan bets on mathematicians



• Statistics2013 at the OECD



• Big Data: Getting Ready For The 2013 Big Bang



• Statisticians Promote Contributions to Society During Statistics2013



• 2013: The year of quinoa, statistics and Monaco Blue



• Learn the math, learn to apply it



• Statisticians are an integral part of clinical trials



• Dealing with the Data Deluge



• Statistical Habits to Add, or Subtract, in 2013



• Tips for a Statistically Savvy 2013



• Best year in Washington: Nate Silver



• Make forensic evidence meet standards of science



• Standing by the Common Core State Standards